On Monday 18 September 2006 11:53, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> Sverre Froyen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This morning, again, LFS appeared to acting up.  One process (kontact)
> > was using about 25% of the cpu and its state (from top) was alternating
> > between lfs_io<somthing> (I think) and lfs <something> (I thought that I
> > had been able to save the output from top in an ffs file, so I did not
> > write it down). In addition, iostat was showing a steady disk transfer
> > rate of 6 MB/s and I could hear the disk seeking.  kontact could not be
> > killed (even with -9) and the halt (and reboot) command had no effect. 
> > Any command that accessed an lfs file system would hang (other commands
> > seemed OK).
> >
> > System is 4.99.1 i386, GENERIC_LAPTOP + acpi, Thinkpad T42.
> >
> > Ideas anyone?
>
> Are you running with this change?  Sounds like a problem that Konrad
> fixed a few days ago:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/09/15/0046.html

I was not.  I am now.

Thanks,

Sverre