[K12OSN] cpu spikes killing me...

[Huck]

ifconfig shows:
[root at ltsp root]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:07:E9:40:1C:7A
          inet addr:192.168.0.254  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::207:e9ff:fe40:1c7a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3835760 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5042769 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:646602617 (616.6 Mb)  TX bytes:3067535778 (2925.4 Mb)
          Base address:0x2040 Memory:fea60000-fea80000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:07:E9:40:1C:7B
          inet addr:10.1.3.35  Bcast:10.1.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::207:e9ff:fe40:1c7b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:400098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:406597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:77622 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:124336167 (118.5 Mb)  TX bytes:261722407 (249.5 Mb)
          Base address:0x2000 Memory:fea80000-feaa0000

nothing out of the ordinary...all packets looking good.

dmesg I have no idea WHAT I'm looking at there..

ahh...a quick grep of my 'testuser' in messages shows it started on Nov 2
here is what it says...I don't understand WHAT it says though *blush*

Nov  2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): starting (version 2.6.0), pid 
9136 user 'huckda'
Nov  2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9134): starting (version 2.6.0), pid 
9134 user 'huckda'
Nov  2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9134): Failed to get lock for 
daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-huckda/lock/ior': probably 
another process has
 the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured 
(Resource temporarily unavailable)
Nov  2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config 
source at position 0
Nov  2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/huckda/.gconf" to a writable config source at 
position 1
Nov  2 08:00:42 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config 
source at position 2
Nov  2 14:44:51 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Received signal 15, shutting 
down cleanly
Nov  2 14:44:51 ltsp gconfd (huckda-9136): Exiting

the above is listed for every thin client login since Nov 2 when 
'whatever' happened caused this...

--Huck

Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:19 -0800, Huck wrote:
>  
>
>>Preface--- K12LTSP 4.1.0
>>IceWM
>>
>>Logins which used to take seconds(3 days ago), now take minutes...
>>and load firefox or open office or even a terminal now takes 30+ seconds...
>>    
>>
>
>Any time I see delays that are divisible by 30 seconds (30s, 1min,
>etc), 
>the very first thing I check is that the DNS is functioning properly.
>
>After that, I'd just start combing the logs for likely errors. Run
>"dmesg",
>look at /var/log/messages, run "ifconfig". Look for SCSI/disc/network 
>errors in particular.
>
>
>-Eric
>
>  
>
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