[plug] Debian puzzle, very weird (chmod, 100% system)

[Leon Brooks]

On Monday 07 April 2003 20:51, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 19:58, indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:35:58PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
>>> Running chmod et al from the console doesn't seem to trigger Machine A's
>>> lunacy.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> this is a bit confusing? you mean touch,chmod,chown only cause problems
>> from a remote session?

> Badly phrased: any console, including a virtual one. Perhaps `from a
> terminal' would have been more appropriate. Sorry.

More info, when these processes go nuts (Machine A only), they chew 100% 
system CPU time. Again, the filesystem they're touching (/var) was fsck'ed 
and found to be clean.

Cheers; Leon