Re: short random freezes.

[g.bonacci@libero.it]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:38:17AM +0100, g.bonacci@libero.it wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I've been running sarge in the last year, and recently I performed
> an "aptitude dist-upgrade" that, among other packages, upgraded
> kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 to kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686.
> 
> Thereafter, my PCs and (non-critical) servers sometimes freeze for a
> short time (tipically about a second) during which keyboard, mouse and
> display seem inactive.  The frequency of freezes increases significantly
> under heavy load.
> 
> This has usually no consequence on processes running, but seem to confuse
> "real-time" applications like mplayer. 
> 
> I tried to isolate the problem by changing windowmanager, but to no
> effect. Now I would like to revert to the "old" kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686,
> and check whether the problem disappears.  But unfortunately, the deb
> seems to have already disappearded from the pool.
> 
> Could you please tell me where to find the kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
> package? 
> 

Greetings. 

I assume that none of you could manage to find the time to even read my
previous message.  But in case someone actually did, he should know that
the problem has been filed as bug 294030 (package chrony), and maybe
the kernel is not involved at all.

g.b.