[ale] load issue (update 2)

[Tim Meanor]

ltrace and strace are two packages you can install.  I didn't see  
what distribution you were using, but if it's fedora or centos, yum  
install ltrace and yum install strace should do it.

Run dmesg to see if there are any messages that may indicate the  
problem.

Are you running auditing?  Is /var full?

On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:41 AM, David Corbin wrote:

> On Saturday 24 June 2006 10:29 am, Jerry Yu wrote:
>> it basically can't spawn a new process (bash or your shell of choice)
>> after authentication.
>> It could be exhaustion of PID, mem, or fd, or too bus a cpu..
>
> For what it's worth, this is a system that's been running smoothly for
> sometime, and decided to 'go wonky' all on it's own.  Rebooting has  
> not
> corrected the problem, so I think it's not a PID, FD, or mem  
> shortage.  Top
> indicates it's not a CPU shortage.
>
>> . again,
>> 'ltrace sshd' or alike will be able to tell which system call it was
>> pending
>
> again, where do I get ltrace?
>
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