Re: debian sarge freeze computer
Hi Alexander,
Hummm, I think this IBM computers don't like kernel 2.6 :).
I install kernel 2.4.27 and until now works fine too.
Regards,
Paulo
On 8/2/05, Alexander Fisher <alexjfisher@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paulo Neves wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a problem that occurs on 2 IBM PIV 2.4Ghz, 1 Gb RAM and 40Gb
> > IDE HDD with debian sarge 3.1 (kernel 2.6).
> > On other computer, the same debian don't give-me any problem.
>
> Hi
> I've exactly the same problem with similar symtoms. Its also on IBM
> 2.4Ghz P4s (Netvistas - I've tried two identical machines). Its not
> like its a complete freeze, but the system becomes *so* slow it may as
> well be. For example, the 'beep' you get when bash autocomplete fails
> lasts for several seconds. A shutdown takes tens of minutes. I've no
> graphical environment installed and am pretty sure that its a kernel
> issue.
> I've witnessed this problem on both 2.6.8-2 and 2.6.11-1 (from
> unstable). So far, 2.4.27-2 seems to be unaffected. I'm not sure
> about load average, but my cpu average was also around 0%. If it
> helps, I'm using XFS on top of LVM on top of RAID 1.
> Any suggestions? I might give a vanilla 2.6.12.3 kernel a go.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Alex
>
>
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