D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Langdon Stevenson <langdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| My Fedora 7 system is running well, except for the nasty habit of freezing two
| or three times per day when I am working.
Your symptoms are non-specific: lots of diseases have the same
symptom. So you need more information.
You can read a few of my messages to the list about things to try.
- when a lock-up happens, try to ssh in from another computer. If you
can, then it isn't a kernel crash
I will try this next time. I verified that I can do this when the laptop
is healthy
- boot with kernel parameter "maxcpus=1". This may suppress the
problem. Not a great long-term solution because you lose the use of
one of your cores.
In my case, this makes no sense as it is a 32bit single processor.
- use a serial console to discover what's bugging your system
- use kdump and clash(8) to grab a dump when the kernel crashes and
then analyze that dump.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg03592.html
Thanks for the reference.
Philip
