On Sunday 17 June 2001 10:41, Cho Yoonbae wrote: > I am operating an server with P3 850*1, 512MB, 90GB storage. (two > 45GB) > blue:~# df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 2.0G 233M 1.6G 13% / > /dev/hda3 32G 2.6G 27G 9% /var > /dev/hda4 10G 646M 9.1G 7% /premium > /dev/hdb2 43G 9.2G 32G 23% /home > > sometimes when my user commands "mv" or "chmod" in telnet or ftp, > directory are locked down. (under /home) > so any user(even root!) enter that directory and command in that > directory until reboot the system. > > another important thing is that while system is in that situation, > system's load is higher and higher. even 37 in result of "uptime".
Uptime is the sum of two numbers. One number is the average number of processes in "D" state, the other is the average number of programs that are ready to do CPU operations. "D" state processes are processes that are blocked on disk IO. It sounds like there is a device driver error in your system related to disk IO that causes processes to get blocked, and that in this instance 37 programs have become blocked on disk IO. I suggest that you run the command "dmesg" and/or check /var/log/kern.log for information on what went wrong. Also please note that we can't help you solve such problems without information on what kernel version you run. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
