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-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@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 <rudiahl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, JohnS <jse...@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. > >> ....... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
