On Tuesday 06 February 2007 21:29, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi List,
Hi Michael, Good to see yoou on the Gentoo list! :-) > I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my > feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with > each version. > From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a > single application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing > into it takes forever. After a while (up to ~30s ) normal reaction is back > again. Strange thing is, there is no activity at the times this happens. > Reading email and browsing the web is all that is needed. CPU is at 3-5% > according to top, mem has ~1GB free according to free. > I can somehow force this behaviour by doing some harddisc io, eg untaring a > kernel-tarball. But it does not happen everytime I do this. > This is really, really annoying. I have no idea, if this is a kernel, a FS > or any other issue. Any help with this is most welcome. > Some additional info: fs is xfs, kernel is 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 and I'm a > KDE-User, but this also happens with xfce4 ;) I had this problem back with older 2.6 kernels and the problem turned out to be caused by XFS. XFS is not a good choice for a desktop, as for my experience. I bet the problem will be gone once you switch to ReiserFS or ext3. > > Thanks, > Michael Cheers, Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
