On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi List, > I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my > feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with > each > version. > From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a > single > application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing into it > takes forever. After a while (up to ~30s ) normal reaction is back again. > Strange thing is, there is no activity at the times this happens. Reading > email and browsing the web is all that is needed. CPU is at 3-5% according > to > top, mem has ~1GB free according to free. > I can somehow force this behaviour by doing some harddisc io, eg untaring > a > kernel-tarball. But it does not happen everytime I do this. > This is really, really annoying. I have no idea, if this is a kernel, a FS > or > any other issue. Any help with this is most welcome. > Some additional info: fs is xfs, kernel is 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 and I'm a > KDE-User, but this also happens with xfce4 ;) >
Maybe a faulty hard drive with bad sectors that can't be read. Anything in /var/log/messages or any other log file? -- Pierre-Yves Rofes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
