lockup 2.2.13pre3

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

The system was running fine for about a month, then over the last two days
the system began to die a slow death.  The frist two lockups I was not
around when it happened but this time I was on the system when it died.

It took about 5 minutes to get the output of PS and looking at that data ..
there were no processes out of control.   Nothing eating memory, and no
memory shortages.

vmstat was displaying that the system's cpu was eaten by the kernel...

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system
cpu
 1  0  0  19880 153400  18376 106168   0   0     0     4 1082   526   2  95
  3
 2  0  0  19880 153368  18376 106176   0   0     1     5 1265   640   1  99
  0
 1  0  0  19664 158408  18376 106592  54   0    31    20 1596   771   1  91
  7
 4  0  0  19648 159056  18376 106624   2   0    10     9 1652   809   2  98
  0
 4  0  0  19648 156992  18400 107640   0   0   142    27 1989  1005   2  98
  0
 2  0  0  19648 155640  18400 108472   0   0   147    10 1061   518   3  97
  0
 5  0  0  19640 150560  18440 109288   0   0   144    31 3338  1578   3  97
  0
 2  0  0  19640 150576  18448 109800   0   0    97    13 1821   812   3  97
  0
 5  0  0  19640 149384  18464 110128   0   0    61    12 1351   632   2  98
  0

It was like all the sudden someone caused the machine to have no resources,
but I can't find anything in userland that would cause the problems.

 11:19pm  up 13:56, 11 users,  load average: 6.42, 8.59, 11.39
233 processes: 227 sleeping, 5 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  2.0% user, 97.6% system,  0.2% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  516968K av, 365056K used, 151912K free, 366896K shrd,  18520K buff
Swap: 611912K av,  19640K used, 592272K free                110968K cached

This is a VERY busy 21164SX Alpha.. any input would be great.  

-Barrett



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