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Re: uptime's gluck




Hello,

>   346  ?  D    0:04 update (bdflush) 

You don't want to kill this. It's the kernel's dirty buffer flusher
daemon. This daemon runs on EVERY Linux machine, excepting diskless
systems (Linux-LP), with no problems.

> mount

Mount can and will load a machine IFF the cdrom can't be mounted. I can't
see a -t iso9660 after mount. It's possible that the superblock detection
failed to notice the iso9660 and is looping on something else.

BTW top should tell you more about who is loading the machine and how
much. My guess is a login process that is respawning, a panicking
sendmail, or xdm in desperate search for a display. gpm can also do this
if its input does not come from a mouse (modems and serial IO peripherals
load gpm just fine sometimes). 

bye,

Peter