[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

Tue May 22 13:36:41 CEST 2012

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 12:11 +0200, AL13N wrote:
+> > On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote:
+> >
+> >>
+> >> Any hints what I could check?
+> >>
+> >
+> >> At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash
+> >> problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I surfed -
+> >> firefox freezes off and on and it is really frustrating.
+> >
+> >
+> > Nope, but I got into same pb during a while, the freezing occurred
+> > during a few secs and only when I was surfing, so I ended up also
+> > suspecting firefox and plugin stuff. It disappears in my case with
+> > recent updates though.
+> 
+> I remember i used to have an old machine with nvnet nvidia onboard
+> network, and it seemed then whenever there was big-ish network traffic,
+> the display seemed to hang for a bit...
+
+I have ruled out CPU and graphic over utilization - as well as heavy
+network traffic.  I also just experienced this phenomenon on my newish
+Thinkpad X220 with an i7-2620 processor and Intel graphics card - 8Gig
+memory and 512 SSD - I had to reboot because the whole system was
+unresponsive.
+
+I have yet to find the cause, and the logs up to this point are not
+helping . . . maybe I should file a bug, but want to see if this is
+machine specific or something more serious with the latest kernels.
+
+Cheers,
+R.Fox
+
+