On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 20:21 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Since I updated my F12 workstation on Tuesday (haven't done it for two > weeks before that) my machine becomes unusable pretty quickly after > every restart. Sometimes after 30 mins, sometimes after a few hours. > > It manifests itself in an ever increasing load, although top doesn't > show anything running. Shell processes simply stop while typing. I.e., > they don't accept any more keystrokes and just freeze. > > X overall becomes very sluggish. Scrolling in firefox moves pixels bn > lines. The Xorg process is eating up lots of CPU cycles and kmsd (I > assume kernel mode switching support in the kernel) also shows up. > > At least before the last reboot I see tons of ext4-dio-unwrit processes. > Last time 81 of them. And I lost data at one of the many reboots. > > > The machine is a single socket i7 with plenty of RAM. Lots of disk, one > RAID 0 and one RAID 1 among the filesystems. All ext4. The graphics > card is a dual head ATI. > > Anybody else seen something like that? ---- I had 2 hard freezes in the last week but my setup is decidedly different. Using nouveau driver and nouveau.modesetting=0 as boot parameter and the first time, I thought it was the KVM I am using but the second time was over night / idle. I use KDE and I would guess that you are using Gnome. One thing that seemed to be a problem was Evolution (no great shock there). When I got Evolution to quit, things seemed to recover a bit. Of course I updated (sheesh there are so many updates it seems every time I update F12). Anyway, I thought maybe my hardware was getting flaky - maybe not. It has been running for... 21:50:02 up 1 day, 14:16, 13 users, load average: 0.13, 0.19, 0.27 I've got my fingers crossed... Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
