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I upgraded an 11.1 system to 11.3. The initial upgrade phase went okay. I then started an Online Update to bring the upgrade to the current level available. The updates finished around 3:00am (MST, -0700).
Both CPUs and the disks are running at 100% ever since. (it is now 11:35 am MST.)
Actually, the CPUs do not run at 100% all the time, only 90% of the time. During one of those few non-100% breaks I started the graphical system monitor and <top>. Neither top nor the monitor’s Process List show any process with a usage greater than 5%. Yet the graphical system load shows both CPUs at 100% most of the time. Since the system is incredibly unresponsive (minutes go by waiting for a window to open), I believe the graphical display.
All this time (over 8 hours now), the disk activity lamp has been solidly on implying saturated disk I/O.
Since neither top nor the process list show what is actually consuming all of the CPU resources, is there some other utility that can do that?
jimoe666 wrote:
> I upgraded an 11.1 system to 11.3. The initial upgrade phase went okay.
> I then started an Online Update to bring the upgrade to the current
> level available. The updates finished around 3:00am (MST, -0700).
did you apply all updates?
check closely because your symptoms were had by many during the early
days of 11.3, and they mostly got fixed by a kernel upgrade…
WAIT, have you rebooted since the updates? if not, do that FIRST,
because the new kernel can’t be swapped in except during a reboot…
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Both CPUs and the disks are running at 100% ever since. (it is now 11:35 am MST.) 8 hours.
Given this sorry state and that there seemed to no end to it and no solution, I decided to wipe the disk and start from scratch. The 11.3 installation went well, as did the massive update that followed.
That machine luckily did not have much that could not be restored easily.
and it is running ok now?
which means you had a faulty upgrade from 11.1 to 11.3–which is
exactly why the recommended upgrade path most folks around here would
have suggested would have been:
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most reliable: backup data, format/install 11.3 and then restore data
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next best choice: save /home and do a format install of 11.3
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least likely to please: upgrade 11.1 to 11.2 and then 11.3
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most likely to not please: upgrade to 11.3 from newer than 11.2
read here to see there is no mention of upgrading from 11.1 to 11.3:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
SORRY, i just didn’t notice the first time i responded that you had
done a 11.1 to 11.3 upgrade or i would have given this reply
yesterday…sorry for yesterday’s bad…
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
What if there were no hypothetical questions?