[CentOS] everything seems to hang, but system is idle?

[Geoff Galitz]

Check dmesg.  The kernel may be reporting disk or filesystem IO problems
that are not going to syslog.

-geoff



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Geoff Galitz
Blankenheim NRW, Germany
http://www.galitz.org/
http://german-way.com/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, JohnS <jses27 at 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.
> >>
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