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On Tuesday 06 February 2007 21:29, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: |
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> Hi List, |
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Hi Michael, |
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Good to see yoou on the Gentoo 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 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 application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing |
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> into it takes forever. After a while (up to ~30s ) normal reaction is back |
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> again. Strange thing is, there is no activity at the times this happens. |
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> Reading email and browsing the web is all that is needed. CPU is at 3-5% |
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> according to 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 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 FS |
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> or 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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I had this problem back with older 2.6 kernels and the problem turned out to |
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be caused by XFS. |
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XFS is not a good choice for a desktop, as for my experience. |
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I bet the problem will be gone once you switch to ReiserFS or ext3. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Michael |
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Cheers, |
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Robert |
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