[ale] Wow! Check out these load averages!

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Tue Mar 11 09:26:23 EST 2003


Turns out someone had shutdown a machine that this box attaches to via
NFS, so the box was hanging waiting for the NFS connection.  It wouldn't
reboot for the same reason.

Thanks, man.

Jonathan

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:50, John Wells wrote:
> Exactly.  And once you're attached, "backtrace" will usually provide some
> telling info.
> 
> John
> 
> James P. Kinney III said:
> > gdb <PID> will attach it to the running (or in your case, hung) process
> >
> > help will give info on classes of things you can do. help <topic> gives
> > more detail.
> >
> > Since ftpd is acting up, bounce the networking setup. Also try running a
> > tcp sniffer to see if you are being attacked. tcpdump is a good idea. If
> > you see ports being half-opened by the same ip, block them at the
> > firewall.
> 
> 
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