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I am beginning to believe it is NOT a Mageia problem because +</I>><i> >> when I boot into Ubuntu 12.04 the problem exists as well. I think it +</I>><i> >> may be hardware related but I can not find what is causing this issue. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> The machine is an Acer Aspire x3900 with a quad core ‎AMD Phenom(tm) II +</I>><i> >> X4 925 Processor - 6GB memory. GeForce GT215 (GeForce 320) card. I am +</I>><i> >> running the x86_64 version of Cauldron. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> The problem occurs under both KDE and Gnome +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Basically, the system seems to freeze up (mouse moves) but nothing else +</I>><i> >> - gkrellem freezes and no errors occur - it just seems to hang - but +</I>><i> >> magically wake up again after some time (many seconds at a time) +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> I have checked various logs and can not find any problems - so I am +</I>><i> >> stumped how to find the source of the problem. I leave the machine +</I>><i> >> running 24x7, but don't think it is a thermal issue. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> When the system runs under Windows 7 (64bit) it appears to run fine. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Any hints what I could check? +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hello! +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you want to log cpuusage to see if some process has extra high cpu +</I>><i> usage during this freeze you could do something like: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> while true; do date >> testfilen.txt ; top -b -n1 >> testfilen.txt ; +</I>><i> sleep 1; done +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Then you will get top-output every second (sleep 1) or whatever time +</I>><i> you specify for sleep. I think there is a way to do this with top +</I>><i> only, without the delay but not sure which flags to use then (possibly +</I>><i> top -d 1 -b) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The file testfilen.txt will of course grow quite large after a while, +</I>><i> so you can't keep this running 24/7 maybe, but maybe you could clear +</I>><i> out the file regularly until you get the error situation again and +</I>><i> then based on the date output you should be able to find cpu usage +</I>><i> around the time of the problem. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Regards, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> David +</I> +Thanks for the quick responses. I checked the cpu usage, but there +doesn't appear to be a spike - and the load average in htop is real low: + +load average: 0.46, 0.67, 0.56 + +so if the X server or something else was maxing out the cpu, I'd see +that. + +Also, if I use a console in KDE (like yakuake) - the stalls happen in +there as well. 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. + +This machine was working fine for at least a year - and I was suspecting +something with the latest kernels and the AMD processor - but have no +evidence. + +The search continues . . . + +Thanks again, +R.Fox + + + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="015759.html">[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="015764.html">[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#15761">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#15761">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#15761">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#15761">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |