Re: [LI] How to diagnose?

["Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

->Subject: Re: [LI] How to diagnose?
->
->> Now my problem is how to diagnose where the problem lies.  Any clues?
->
->Does your machine sleep periodically or randomly?

randomly.

->
->could be some cron job that writes to some device like a tape.....
->checking messages should help.

I have read the messages and found nothing unusual.

->
->also it is possible some real memory hog process is being run by an user,
->something like opening a lot ofsockets and trying to tie up the servers resources.
->

The load is almost dismal when this happened.

->did you install some new s/w yesterday since you mentioned this problem was
->discovered yesterday..

None

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