In perfect Murphy's law style.. I'm now monitoring CPU usage from
another machine sshed into mine and nothing is happening. I was anyway
using the top command before but only after I was experiencing the slow
down but didn't see anything suspicious. Let's wait and see.
Could anyone point out how to identify the events that make my system to
beep occasionally. It is annoying for one thing! And for the other it
may be trying to alert me of something but I don't know what
Thanks
Al
Chris Rouch wrote:
On 4/17/07, Al Graziano <al.graziano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I hope some can help me as I am getting very frustrated.
I have recently update my Fedora 6 to the latest kernel etc. and I am
now experiencing some very strange, apparently random behaviour
1) All of a sudden the system starts going very very slow until it
eventually hangs and has to be rebooted with the laptop power button
I've seen something similar. I have a box running mythtv which has 2
pvr500 tv cards in it. When all 4 tuners are recording, on a 2.6.19
kernel I'd see the load average get up to 5 or so, and the system
would still be useable. With kernel-2.6.20-1.2933, the system would
melt down - the load average would hit 20 or so and the only way to
get sanity back would be to kill processes using a lot of memory
(typically the X server). Rolling back to 2.6.19 made the problem go
away. I haven't tried any newer kernel.
I'm reluctant to blame the kernel specifcally (especially as I've not
found anyone complaining about problems). I have a legacy nvidia
graphics card, so I'm running nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl, plus
ivtv-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911 to drive the pvr500s. But as reverting the
kernel (and thus the kmdls) fixed it, I concluded that there's
something wrong with the kernel+kmdl combination.
My system is quite old (athlon 2800+), but has 1.5Gb memory and the
same amount of swap, and normally seems able to handle anything I
throw at it.
So in summary, try using a 2.6.19 kernel instead and see if it helps.
Please report back here either way.
Regards,
Chris
