On Sunday 04 February 2018 15:49:36 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform. > Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned nodes. > > I have goggled the causes. cures and prevention, but have gotten no > results that make any sense to me. I've been using computer since the > early 1960's but am an organic chemist by training and experience, not > a hardware expert. > > At first I though it might be impending hard drive failure as I > started receiving warning messages from the OS, but installing a brand > new drive has not solved the problem, They seem to happen when I am > running four or more apps at the same time. I have 8GB of RAM in the > system. > > I've installed several tools, lscup and lsh, but in all candor I don't > have the faintest idea what to make of the results. I'm not even sure > if the results have any application to solutions for the problem. > > Can anyone give me some guidance in what I should be looking for? It > would be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance.
Are you perchance running clamav? version 99.3's first release about 2 weeks back used up the available unix sockets, bricking the machine till a reboot, wash, rinse, repeat. A new 99.3 has fixed that, but until that filters thru the distro channels, you should shut clamav down. So I have, and have commented out, the calls to inspect incoming emails out of my .procmailrc. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
