[indiana-discuss] help to diagnosis non-stop disk activity and unresponsive system

[Henry Jen]

Hi,

I have been troubled by unresponsive system with non-stop disk
activities, my guess is the system do paging like crazy. As many
times, this comes along with some "failed to fork" or "out of memory"
problem.

This time, trying to open a pdf file, and started with following error
is a catastrophic core dumps of several processes: evince, netbeans,
thunderbird and glassfish.

What commands/tools can I use to figure out what process is doing all
the disk activity?

I know I probably should increase my swap partition size from current
0.5 GB, what would you suggest for a better value. I got 1.5 GB RAM on
the system, is 3 GB for swap a good number?

Cheers,
Henry


 cairo context error: out of memory
Error: failed to load truetype font

some font thing failed
cairo context error: out of memory
Error: failed to load truetype font

some font thing failed
cairo context error: out of memory

(evince:4229): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 454:
assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(evince:4229): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 503:
assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(evince:4229): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 544:
assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

[1]+  Segmentation Fault      (core dumped) evince /tmp/tnt.pdf