Re: System is a mess where should I start
Paul Frederiks wrote:
Hi,
ATM my sid box is a mess. All Gecko based browsers stall or crash at
least every hour. Mplayer crashes all the time. Pan is slow, openoffice
is slow, etc. etc. Shutdowns occasionally end up in a kernel panic.
xterm and gnome-terminal sometimes don't respond to input for multiple
seconds. Everything is just slow as hell. It seems connected with the
fact that my broadband connection is bad ATM. The dhcp server fails to
assign the DSLAM as a gateway (like it always did), so I need to
manually add the modem as a gateway (which restores a connection). Why
should this totally wreck the whole system? Suggestions how to fix this?
Thanks in advance,
Paul Frederiks
You have described a dozen or more problems.
As for a total wreck of the system, and if you aren't too picky about this
box running for a while, downgrade to -testing and see what's left to fix.
It might work, it might finish it off. I've done this in the past without
problems, but YMMV.
I don't see how a bad broad band connection can be related to what appears to
be poor X performance. You got me there.
As for the X-apps being slow. Frame-buffering?
what the processes through 'top' and see if there is anything peculiar.
I have found in the past that 'fam' can cause some serious run-away problems
and system lockups. Last I found one, it tanked my single cpu server up to a
load of 8.0+, used all the ram, and was throwing kernel errors off the fam
modules. Unfortunately in my haste to keep the system from a complete
meltdown I didn't do a very good job in diagnostics. But I found all this
from 'top'.
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