Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?
On 06 Jan 2002, ben wrote:
> all i can think of to suggest is to check all available logs for clues about
> the system activity at the time of the freeze. since this seems to happen
> regularly, it shouldn't be too hard to organize.
> do you have any kind of power management installed? you might want to check
> the time it takes from the start of a lenghty download to the moment of the
> crash. if the time period is always the same, ie not random, it increases
> your chances of tracking down the cause. you should also check the use rules
> for ntl, to find out if anything in your machine configuration conflicts with
> those rules.
> sorry, that's all i can come up with.
>
>
It just did it again; I was out of the room at the time but I had set it
to run apt-get update in my absence. The log files don't show anything.
I did wonder about power management myself; I do have it set in the
BIOS, so I could try disabling it. I'm not sure if the time interval is
always the same.
Anyway, I'm beginning to think it's just another of those computer
mysteries with which life abounds. Since it seems to be solved by
changing ISP, this is probably what I shall do.
Anthony
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