Check dmesg. The kernel may be reporting disk or filesystem IO problems that are not going to syslog.
-geoff
--------------------------------- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers Sent: Sonntag, 11. April 2010 14:49 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] everything seems to hang, but system is idle?
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahlers@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, JohnS jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 12:58 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
At the same time I can open a new SSH session and do whatevery I like. But it seems that running a command which takes time to complete hangs.
Try killing off those rsyncs and try it again. You need to provide
some
other type of error messages. Use strace. tail /var/log/messages and paste it in your reply. Even if you don't see anything in it that does not mean someone else can't. You may need a reboot.
.......