Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:28 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Craig White wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 20:21 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >>>> Since I updated my F12 workstation on Tuesday (haven't done it for two >>>> weeks before that) my machine becomes unusable pretty quickly after >>>> every restart. Sometimes after 30 mins, sometimes after a few hours. >>>> >>>> It manifests itself in an ever increasing load, although top doesn't >>>> show anything running. Shell processes simply stop while typing. I.e., >>>> they don't accept any more keystrokes and just freeze. >>>> >>>> X overall becomes very sluggish. Scrolling in firefox moves pixels bn >>>> lines. The Xorg process is eating up lots of CPU cycles and kmsd (I >>>> assume kernel mode switching support in the kernel) also shows up. >>>> >>>> At least before the last reboot I see tons of ext4-dio-unwrit processes. >>>> Last time 81 of them. And I lost data at one of the many reboots. >>>> >>>> >>>> The machine is a single socket i7 with plenty of RAM. Lots of disk, one >>>> RAID 0 and one RAID 1 among the filesystems. All ext4. The graphics >>>> card is a dual head ATI. >>>> >>>> Anybody else seen something like that? >>> ---- >>> I had 2 hard freezes in the last week but my setup is decidedly >>> different. Using nouveau driver and nouveau.modesetting=0 as boot >>> parameter and the first time, I thought it was the KVM I am using but >>> the second time was over night / idle. I use KDE and I would guess that >>> you are using Gnome. >> Is the machine actually locked or just the X display. I have 2 new i7 >> machines using the nouveau driver and every couple of days the X display >> locks. I can ssh to it from another machine and bring it down gracefully. >> It needs to be powered off and restarted to get it back into a usable state. >> If I just reboot it, tends to lock up before I can login. KVM seems to >> aggravate the problem in that if I have virtual machines running the problem >> happens sooner. IOW I get longer uptimes between lockups if the virt machines >> are shutdown. I am not sure if that is relevant or not. >> >> FWIW I filed Bug 559791 but so far no one has provided any feedback. > ---- > When I say 'hard freeze' I mean that I cannot ssh or even switch to a > virtual terminal <Control><Alt><F2> and thus have no option to do > anything but a complete power off. Thankfully, that hasn't happened in > the past 3 days so maybe this is no longer an issue for me. > Even with the keyboard dead (happens all the time with FC12) you should be able to ssh in from another machine. Odd. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
