Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: > > On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > > 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. > > 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...
I don't think, swap is the cause of this. This system has 1,5GB Ram, swap is nearly never touched :) Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
