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From: pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Sick Cube
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Date: 1 Feb 90 08:06:45 GMT
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Reply-To: pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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About 24 hrs ago our cube started exibiting the following strange behavior:

Load average ~2 when idle.
100% CPU utilization all the time.
Going thru processes like crazy (up to pid 3000 1 minute after reboot!).
init using ~33% of CPU time.
Lots of <defunct> processes.
Way too many System Calls.
Way too many Calls to Trap.
Way too many Address Faults.

I tried the following: (all to no avail)

Reboot.
Power down.
Boot from distribution optical.
Boot from distribution optical with net disconnected.
Disconnect SCSI disk and boot from optical.
Disconnect optical disk and boot from SCSI.

Any ideas or previous experience with this problem?

It runs fine, just slow.  And I'm very worried about it.

Thanks.


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251