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

Tue May 22 14:16:07 CEST 2012

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+On 22/05/12 12:36, Robert Fox wrote:
+> 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.
+> 
+I had this problem recently- just on one day.  Like you, I couldn't
+pinpoint the problem and had to reboot.  The only thing this (netbook)
+system has in common with yours is Intel graphics.
+
+Anne
+
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