On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Dan Bongert wrote:
>> You can also try running ``strace /bin/ls'' to see what is going on.> Funnily enough, running strace will work just fine. Though, as I said, just> about any command will fail -- 'ls' was just for testing purposes.That's funny. Or due to the output of strace changing timing & stress.
Try redirecting the strace output to a separate (local filesystem or
ramdisk) file, possibly restricted to file operations. Also: check top
- you don't have swap or ram problems?
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