Re: Lenny annoyance
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:25:48 -0500, David in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> Ever since I upgraded from Etch to Lenny, I've been having problems. My PC is
> a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 with a Netgear PCMCIA wifi card (Atheros
> chipset). I'm using a stock kernel (2.6.26-2-686). My desktop is Xfce,
> although I've tried Gnome and KDE as well. On a regular basis, my system
> hangs for a few seconds. During this period, I can move the mouse pointer
> but that is all. It does not respond to any mouse clicks. Also, during this
> time the CPU load goes to zero (according to the System Load Monitor on the
> panel) and the Network load pulses about once a second. After a few seconds,
> the problem clears and everything goes back to normal. Also, when I open
> Skype, the network connection crashes immediately, every time.
Pretty vague; what are the specs ? How much ram/swap etc. ?
I have that happen every once and awhile on my Toshiba 1800 with 128 mb of
ram; but that's expected when running a web browser on Xorg with such little
ram. I'm going to upgrade once I can find some for my model.
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