Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-22 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 12:11 +0200, AL13N wrote: On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote: Any hints what I could check? At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I surfed - firefox freezes off and on and it is

[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Fox
Hello All - I am experiencing a strange problem with a specific machine running Cauldron. I am beginning to believe it is NOT a Mageia problem because when I boot into Ubuntu 12.04 the problem exists as well. I think it may be hardware related but I can not find what is causing this issue. The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread AL13N
perhaps check the logs (/var/log/messages) for information regarding those downtimes. see if the ping also delays perhaps try to monitor something via ssh or in tty, to see if it's only the graphic card. also, check ntpd settings, do they make big jumps? etc... in short: logging is always

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:11 +0200, Robert Fox wrote: The problem occurs under both KDE and Gnome Basically, the system seems to freeze up (mouse moves) but nothing else - gkrellem freezes and no errors occur - it just seems to hang - but magically wake up again after some time (many

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 19:50 +0200, David Sjölin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM, AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote: perhaps check the logs (/var/log/messages) for information regarding those downtimes. see if the ping also delays perhaps try to monitor something via ssh or in tty, to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread eatdirt
On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote: Any hints what I could check? At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I surfed - firefox freezes off and on and it is really frustrating. Nope, but I got into same pb during a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Mahmut Bulut
probably ntpd won't cause something like this, this is not a botnet attack :) and also situation can't caused from cpu usage. I think it can be (and your thought i appreciate) is kernel-related problem. And use a c code something like that to panic; char *kernel_panic = NULL; char message =

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Dimitrios Glentadakis
Στις 21/05/2012 23:17:05 Mahmut Bulut γράψατε: probably ntpd won't cause something like this, this is not a botnet attack :) and also situation can't caused from cpu usage. I think it can be (and your thought i appreciate) is kernel-related problem. And use a c code something like that to