[lug] Fedora 14 goes catatonic....

[Simos]

On Tuesday 07 June 2011 9:41 Dave Pitts wrote:
> Hey:
> 
> Has anybody else who's running Fedora 14 seen it go catatonic? I've got an older 
> IBM A30p running this distro and when I've got Firefox, VLC, and a shell window 
> open it goes catatonic every couple of days. When I run top, if it's not too far 
> gone, it shows most of the activity is in the >82% wait state, the disk is being 
> pounded with activity and cpu usage is low <10%. If I can get a ps -ef it 
> appears to be running, in addition to the usual stuff, packagekitd and it's 
> python child...
> 
> Could the packagekitd really be the culprit? Or.....

Dave,

Run "atop" while the problem is happening to find out which process
is pounding the disk (since you have high wait I/O).

Regards,

Simos