<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ross Boylan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org" target="_blank">rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I attempted to ssh in, but did not get a connection until the system got itself unstuck. (for both hangs).</blockquote></div><br><div>Ahh... so the system isn't truely hung... it eventually recovers.</div><div><br></div>
<div>There was a lot of discussion recently regarding the leap-second bug causing extremely high CPU utilization. Doubt that's it, but it's possible I suppose.</div><div><br></div><div>Either way, something is thrashing your system... and swapping is a likely candidate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Try copying some files around and see what kind of impact it has on the CPU... perhaps your not using DMA or something silly like that.</div><div><br></div><div>I wouldn't think so, but perhaps there is some overhead associated with using the chroot?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, nothing that mythtv is doing should push your system load to 60! I suspect you had some major iowait going on.</div>