Subject: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: IBM ThinkCentre sometimes goes to extremely sluggish state Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 Version: 2.6.8-10 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** Sometimes IBM ThinkCentre MT-M 8183-35G goes to some strange state where the whole computer is extremely slow. Any command takes about one minute to execute, so the computer is so slow it is unusable. Only way to recover seems to reboot, but even shutdown takes about 15 minutes. I have tried setting acpi=off, and checked acpi was not available when running so I did that correctly. It did not help, still the sluggishness happened. I have maintained this classroom of 13 machines since August, same problem has been all the time. I have tried different kernel versions, but it is hard to say if the problem has been better or worse, since it seems completely random. No matter if a student is using the machine or it is just idling, it may go to this sluggish state. In a two hour session, about 2 machines go to this state and they have to be rebooted. More info available from http://people.debian.org/~tale/IBM/ The PNG image is from ssh session where I ran apt-get update and host nttv37 claims it took 49710 days to fetch the files. Other hosts did it in 4 seconds. So time runs wrong on nttv37, which happened to go to this sluggish state. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.74 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information
