On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:01, wells oliver wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 on my AMD Athlon 1ghz system and am having > some weird issues. I'm using the 2.4.18-k7 kernel from the packages. > > The system will pause occaisionally; it seems jerky. Just for a few > seconds here, 10 seconds there, but it's thoroughly irritating and > baffling. > > I had shadow RAM turned on during install, but it's off now. > > My inital thoughts, i.e. random stabs in the dark, are that it's > something to do with HD access. I have an 80GB Seagate disc partitioned > into 3, hda1 is /, hda2 is /home, and hda3 is /www. The fstab reads > like: > > /dev/hda1 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda2 /www ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda3 /home ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0 > > I have also have the folliwning kernel modules loaded and I am entirely > unsure what they do: > > rtc 5592 0 (autoclean) > ext2 30848 3 (autoclean) > ide-disk 6816 4 (autoclean) > ide-probe-mod 8096 0 (autoclean) > ide-mod 131404 4 (autoclean) [ide-disk ide-probe-mod] > ext3 57248 0 (autoclean) > jbd 35640 0 (autoclean) [ext3] > unix 13636 8 (autoclean) > > I realize this is a vague problem and that is partly why it's so > baffling to me and frustrating. Any advice appreciated! > > / wells oliver // wells@submute.net > / http://www.submute.net You don't mention - how much RAM? Is the drive light on while the system stalls? Do you run any sort of process meter, or can you at least offer load averages from immediately after such a pause? Does this happen with any program you might have, or are there certain programs loaded when it is more likely? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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