Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

[Alex Schuster]

Roy Wright writes:

> Alex Schuster wrote:
[temporary freezes]
> I replaced my media lan's router the other day with a
> gentoo+dnsmasq+shorewall homebrew and hit this behavior.  My observation
> is that they freeze when you loose internet connection.  Two quick
> tests:  1) pull you internet cable and see if that duplicates the
> behavior you are experiencing; 2) try to ping an internet system while
> you are experiencing the problem.

Thaks, that looked promising - my internet connection _is_ quite unstable 
indeed. But at the moment it's working fine, I can ping while the problem 
happens, and pulling the cable does not trigger it.

	Wonko