On Monday 25 March 2002 03:52 am, you wrote: > Having used 8.2 with the default kernel (I know...) for 6 days now I've > stumbled on something.. After about 4 to 6 hours of use, I start getting > more and more system load. After 1.5 days, my system load is up to 20-ish, > and I can't get a root shell no more (!!). Console login doesn't happen > inside 15 minutes... Has anyone else observed similar behavior? Let me > point out, I'm not running any weird services or using any exotic > applications/hardware. As far as I can figure (Without delving deeper into > the matter, no thank you, I already do this for work!) it would seem like > a problem with the kernel or modprobe. > No I don't think so... is not a kernel problem, rather a Video problem... or probably a KDE problem, I reported this earlier in the beta testing stage.
I was using my own backgrounds, some nice chicks and switching the pics every 15 min. after removing this the problem dissapeared. > The hardware I'm using is a microstar MB with some VIA chipset, athlon > 700. eepro100 for a nic, tnt1 (diamond viper 550) for display adapter. An > old HP cd-rw using ide-scsi.o. > > Also, using the stock kernel nets me a kernel panic (!!) if I try to > switch to another console early into bootup.. (Whose idea was it to make > the boot process quiet by default anyway? ;) If you want to see full activity switch to Ctl-Alt-F11 during boot, it only has been switched there. SK
