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On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: |
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> On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: |
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> > Hi List, |
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> > I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my |
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> > feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with |
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> > each |
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> > version. |
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> > From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a |
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> > single |
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> > application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing into it |
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> > takes forever. After a while (up to ~30s ) normal reaction is back again. |
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> > Strange thing is, there is no activity at the times this happens. Reading |
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> > email and browsing the web is all that is needed. CPU is at 3-5% |
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> > according to |
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> > top, mem has ~1GB free according to free. |
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> > I can somehow force this behaviour by doing some harddisc io, eg untaring |
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> > a |
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> > kernel-tarball. But it does not happen everytime I do this. |
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> > This is really, really annoying. I have no idea, if this is a kernel, a |
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> > FS or |
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> > any other issue. Any help with this is most welcome. |
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> > Some additional info: fs is xfs, kernel is 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 and I'm a |
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> > KDE-User, but this also happens with xfce4 ;) |
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> |
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> Maybe a faulty hard drive with bad sectors that can't be read. Anything in |
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> /var/log/messages or any other log file? |
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> Pierre-Yves Rofes |
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I am not sure that something is 'broken'. His problem is like mine... heavy |
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disk i/o kills performance. And if the box hits swap, everything sucks.... |
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because for some reason, always the wrong stuff is swapped out ;) |
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Really, sometimes, it is like every single bit is fetched individually from |
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the swap space... |
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