Hi all I also encounter this problem I used the fedora 6 update button to update the packages last Friday After reboot, it keeps hanging after few minutes. --- Al Graziano <al.graziano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
