System ground down to a halt

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2016 22:56:44 +1000, blind Pete wrote:
>>Question for the OP: if you type "free" in a terminal, what is the
>>output?  If you post that, people will know whether or not swap
>>usage is involved.
>
> Just in case that e.g. tmpfs is full, consider to run
>
>   free; df -h
>

$ free; df -h
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16122396   10681624    5440772     267444     607436    7058204
-/+ buffers/cache:    3015984   13106412
Swap:     13405180          0   13405180
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            7.7G  4.0K  7.7G   1% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  1.6M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/sda1        20G  8.4G   11G  45% /
none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            7.7G  145M  7.6G   2% /run/shm
none            100M   32K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda4       885G  742G  134G  85% /htera
/dev/sdb3       1.3T  886G  360G  72% /ttera
/dev/sdb2       493G  441G   27G  95% /home

Afraid this is not a lot of help when everything is running fine and
there do not appear to be any threats to full memory, CPU overload, or
the like.

Thanks tho.