On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: > 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
I am not sure that something is 'broken'. His problem is like mine... heavy disk i/o kills performance. And if the box hits swap, everything sucks.... because for some reason, always the wrong stuff is swapped out ;) Really, sometimes, it is like every single bit is fetched individually from the swap space... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
