James wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:55:34PM +0000 : > > before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the form > of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this starts to > happen I know to reboot the box and I'm back to normal. Top shows no > runaway programs CPU usage generally stays below 40% bit a mean average > of about 20% (I really don't do anything that intense) Swap never
Other suggestions: 1) 'killall artsd' (assuming you're running KDE, you won't be able to share /dev/dsp anymore) 2) Any Western Digital hard drives? 3) 'dmesg' Look for any kind of errors accessing the hard drive. 4) 'hdparm -t /dev/hda' or whatever your hard drive is. Do it right after bootup, and do it when it starts to slow down, and do it when it's barely crawling. 5) If you ssh to it from another box, is it strange there as well (trying to rule out the display as a culprit). Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk
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