Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

[Jason Dodson]

99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply.

Fernando Antunes wrote:
 Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution.
 I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application
 to associate, but no success.
 I suspect this is a hardware problem or misconfigured driver.
 
 Where I find last kernel panic logs after reboot ?
 What are the first steps to investigate this  ?
 
 Thanks for any clue ?
 
 
 BOX:
 Pentium 4
 RAM 512 RAM
 gentoo 2.6-15-gentoo-r1 (olders have the sma problem)
 xorg-x11 6.8.2-r6 (nv driver on a TNT2 Riva)
 


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Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

[Jason Dodson]

Such a scenario could be your your arms and legs falling off...

 On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:20:12PM -0600, kashani wrote:
 
  The last top posting/html thread was 3 weeks ago... so yes it's time 
for another Keep Gentoo leet thread. Gentoo isn't about pain, it's 
about getting work done. Anything, and I mean *anything*, that allows me 
to spend less time working and more time having a life is a good thing. 
 


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Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

[Jason Dodson]

DMA is essentially the AVOIDANCE of using the CPU for I/O. The CPU makes a few
calls to the chipset (in the case of ATA DMA), and the rest happens around the
processor, not threw it.

Jason

 
 It's described in the vmstat man page.  You're supposed to be clairvoyant 
 about
 these things and know that virtual memory stats is where cpu time is 
 described. :)
 
 It's Time spent waiting for IO.  The cpu can't do anything until IO is
 completed - typically this is some kind of DMA transfer.
 
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