<div dir="ltr">yes, looks like a hdd problem.<div><br></div><div>syslog has a set of these entries for each pause:</div><div><div>ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED</div><div>ata1.00: cmd 60/48:00:f0:ce:8a/00:00:4d:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 36864 in</div>
<div>res 51/40:48:f0:ce:8a/00:00:4d:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F></div><div>ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }</div></div><div><br></div><div>and the SMART diagnostics for the drive report a bad sector pending.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Damn, looks like I'm spending the weekend zerofilling and reinstalling *sigh*.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the pointers :)</div><div><br></div><div>Marcus</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 May 2014 14:23, Onno Benschop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:onno@itmaze.com.au" target="_blank">onno@itmaze.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Any messages in dmesg or syslog?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 May 2014 14:05, Marcus Holmes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mh@marcusholmes.biz" target="_blank">mh@marcusholmes.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Using Debian XFCE, I've suddenly got a strange erratic system hang in the last week or so.<div><br>
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<div>I've done some sleuthing, and this bit of my .bashrc:</div><div>HISTSIZE=1000</div><div>HISTFILESIZE=2000</div>
<div>causes a 20-25 second delay in the execution of .bashrc, during which every other process running also pauses.</div><div><br></div><div>There's also the same delay at the end of the .bashrc execution and before the terminal prompt appears. Renaming .bashrc doesn't affect the delay before the prompt appears.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Attempting to open a file manager on my home folder also causes this delay (but not if it opens on any other folder, but opening a terminal in another folder still causes the delay).</div><div><br></div>
<div>Attempting to google the problem only takes me to endless tutorials on how to set a delay in bash.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone got any ideas?</div><div>My gut is telling me that there's a problem with my home folder that's causing the disk driver to spin/timeout, but I don't know how to verify this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help,</div><div><br></div><div>Marcus</div><div><br></div></div>
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