Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread jidanni
All I know is for the last year on sid, linux seems to have partially lost its multitasking: when it gets into an intense job, there isn't even any cycles allocated to updating the clock icon, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-05-23 05:28, Ron Johnson wrote: What about running memtest86+? And use memtester as well. RAM I had to change 3 days ago showed no (!) problems with memtest after long hours and many passes, but still it didn't work. Seems like Git and Torrents indicate memory faults pretty well, too.

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. That's a quite old computer. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. That's a quite old computer. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/23/11 05:02, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. That's a quite old computer. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: [snip] My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) The Pentium II max clockspeed was 233-450MHz are you sure it's not a P4? (PIII clockspeeds are 400Mhz to 1.4GHz.) So if it's a 2GHz CPu then it's got to be a P4. It

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote the following on 05/22/2011 09:47 PM: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: I'm sorry! That was a very significant typo! I have a P4, not a P2. Also, not raid disk. No worries, I'm just surprised no one else picked up on it sooner lol. Also, Mem: 1555440k Swap: 6168868k so that's ~1.5GB in

Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems longer, and it happens often, every couple of minutes.

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/22/2011 09:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems longer, and it

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:47:03PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it