Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-27 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 10:34 AM, Vanhorn, Mike michael.vanh...@wright.edu wrote: I have two HP dc7800 convertible minitowers that are exhibiting the following issue: every 5-10 minutes, they will freeze for about 30 seconds, and then pick right back up again. During the freeze, it seems that nothing at all

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-27 Thread John Doe
From: Vanhorn, Mike michael.vanh...@wright.edu As a followup, I've determined that it is network related, but I'm still not sure what the problem is. I did go back to CentOS 5.2, but the problem still exists with that version, too. Basically, what seems to be happening is that the network

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-27 Thread Jerry Franz
On 07/27/2012 07:23 AM, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: As a followup, I've determined that it is network related, but I'm still not sure what the problem is. I did go back to CentOS 5.2, but the problem still exists with that version, too. Basically, what seems to be happening is that the network

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-27 Thread Lars Hecking
It's not necessarily network hw or sw that's at fault. I once had a similar problem caused by the (3rd party) driver of the onboard RAID controller. Newer driver version fixed it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 11:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: When you say swapped the entire machine, what did you do? I have two of them, and thinking it was the hardware on the one, I moved the hard drive to the second, but the problem existed there, too. That points to something with the

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 12:04 PM, Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk wrote: I've several HP dc7x00 machines, and I've never seen that problem with centos 5 or 6. I do, too. Things are fine on our 7900s, and the 8000-series machines we have. I'm only seeing it on these two 7800s. Do you also see the problem if you

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 12:07 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: Do you have the latest BIOS? Yes. Did you get a CD to run tests (like Insight Diagnostics Offline)? Yes, I used my copy of the UBCD to run memory and hard drive diagnostics, and both passed. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 12:22 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: Hi Mike. Are you on 32 or 64 bits ? 64. I have thought of trying 32 bit, just to see if it made a difference, but if it does, that won't help me because we need 64 bits for the software we're running, anyway. --- Mike VanHorn Senior

[CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
I have two HP dc7800 convertible minitowers that are exhibiting the following issue: every 5-10 minutes, they will freeze for about 30 seconds, and then pick right back up again. During the freeze, it seems that nothing at all happens on the system; the clock doesn't even advance (it just picks

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-25 Thread m . roth
Vanhorn, Mike wrote: I have two HP dc7800 convertible minitowers that are exhibiting the following issue: every 5-10 minutes, they will freeze for about 30 seconds, and then pick right back up again. During the freeze, it seems that nothing at all happens on the system; the clock doesn't even

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-25 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/25/2012 04:34 PM, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: I have two HP dc7800 convertible minitowers that are exhibiting the following issue: every 5-10 minutes, they will freeze for about 30 seconds, and then pick right back up again. During the freeze, it seems that nothing at all happens on the system;

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us Vanhorn, Mike wrote: I have two HP dc7800 convertible minitowers that are exhibiting the following issue: every 5-10 minutes, they will freeze for about 30 seconds, and then pick right back up again. During the freeze, it seems that nothing at all

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-25 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: *snip* I am stuck, and can't figure out where to even suspect the problem might actually be. There are no errors getting logged anywhere that I can find, probably because everything just stops temporarily, so there's nothing for the system to log.