Re: mysterious load

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 23:25 31 Dec 2003, Robert Brown <eli typhoon xnet com> wrote:
| I figgured out what the problem was, --this time--, but it would still 
| be nice to better understand the general case.  This time, it was gpm
| was hung up in the middle of reading the mouse when the
| keyboard-mouse-display switch was flipped to another machine, so the
| mouse got pulled at an inoportune moment.  Very interesting!

Care to describe how you determined this?

You might also find interesting the WCHAN column from a "ps axl" listing.
It gives some idea of what type of thing is blocking a process - you
can then investigate the suspicious ones with "lsof -p" perhaps.
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