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On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> you might just hit a thrashing situation. Linux is very bad when it |
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> comes to abusing swap in case of an emergency. |
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> But it also sounds like overheating or a power problem. Power problems |
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> might be caused by the PSU - but it could also be the power circuitry |
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> of |
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> your mobo. |
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It's not a thrashing issue as I don't have any swap. The 8GB of ram has |
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been sufficient memory for all tasks thus far. I have no objection to |
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allocating some swap space if it could resolve the issue. |
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Actually, Grant and you both suggested possible heat issues which has |
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just made me think that I should check for dust build up in the CPU heat |
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sink. There so much dust where I live that I have to vacuum dust build |
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up from the case. |
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The sensors tool reports 51C, it doesn't appear to be running too hot, |
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but I don't have a baseline to compare it to. I see I need to implement |
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monitoring for this machine once it's stable again. |
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k10temp-pci-00c3 |
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Adapter: PCI adapter |
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temp1: +51.0°C (high = +70.0°C) |
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(crit = +71.0°C, hyst = +66.0°C) |
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I'll give the inside a clean this weekend and see if there's any |
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improvement. |
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Thanks for the suggestions. |
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Regards, |
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Carlos |