Bug#284477: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: IBM ThinkCentre sometimes goes to extremely sluggish state
Subject: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: IBM ThinkCentre sometimes goes to extremely sluggish state
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Version: 2.6.8-10
Severity: normal
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Sometimes IBM ThinkCentre MT-M 8183-35G goes to some strange state where
the whole computer is extremely slow. Any command takes about one minute
to execute, so the computer is so slow it is unusable. Only way to
recover seems to reboot, but even shutdown takes about 15 minutes.
I have tried setting acpi=off, and checked acpi was not available when
running so I did that correctly. It did not help, still the sluggishness
happened.
I have maintained this classroom of 13 machines since August, same
problem has been all the time. I have tried different kernel versions,
but it is hard to say if the problem has been better or worse, since it
seems completely random. No matter if a student is using the machine or
it is just idling, it may go to this sluggish state. In a two hour
session, about 2 machines go to this state and they have to be rebooted.
More info available from http://people.debian.org/~tale/IBM/
The PNG image is from ssh session where I ran apt-get update and host
nttv37 claims it took 49710 days to fetch the files. Other hosts did
it in 4 seconds. So time runs wrong on nttv37, which happened to go to
this sluggish state.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.74 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
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