[TriLUG] Re: 'process accounting paused'?

[Jason Tower]

well, i must say this is an auspicious moment.  never thought i'd see an
email from such a linux luminary as maddog in my mbox.  and not only that,
but he took the time to answer a relatively simple question (no offense
ken, simple questions are good too!)  now i feel bad about every time i
read a trilug post and said to myself, "i'm far too 1337 to answer a
simple like *that*, let 'em figure it out the hard way like i did". 
mighty impressive.

jason

> When there is a great load on the system and there is a lot of swapping
> and thrashing going on, the first thing the system does is try to unload
> itself, and the first thing it does is "suspend" process accounting.
> Usually a sign of low memory levels, perhaps generated by the release of
> many jobs at one time by cron.
>
> md
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Jason Tower
Cerient Technologies
jason at cerient.net