<div dir="ltr">I've experienced this kind of slowness from a dying hard drive - only it might have been the controllers and not the disk itself. I remember running Diskwarrior (Mac hard disk utility program), and even though it took a LONG, LONG time to run, it came back with only insignificant errors. (Improper file count in the index, etc.) Once I replaced the drive, everything was back to normal. Do you have a spare drive you could throw in there?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 6/29/2013 04:41, Mike Harrison wrote:<br>
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
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didn't crop up until recently (maybe four or five days ago) but the<br>
machine had been running continuously without issue for about 50 days<br>
(would have<br>
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I'd start with dmesg - I've seen weird HD or other I/O errors cause<br>
similar issues and they showed up in 'dmesg'<br>
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And stupid things: If this system is remote, run MTR/traceroute<br>
to it, it might not be a machine issue, but a connection to it issue.<br>
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Didn't see anything in dmesg, either, though I'll dig through again just in case I missed a one-liner.<br>
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"Remote" is a bit of a stretch in this case. The computer with the ssh terminal is sitting directly above the one having trouble and both are cabled into the same switch. :) I just called it "remote" because I'm not using the console or a DE on the troubled machine.<div class="HOEnZb">
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