On 8/2/05, Paulo Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > Hi All. I'm still trying to get this fixed. I've cc-ed the debian kernel list to see if anybody there has any thoughts. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00072.html
In my opinion using a 2.4 kernel is at best a workaround and not a solution. I've given 2.6.12-1-686 a go. It also slows right down after a while. I just ran "time sleep 1" real 0m0.000s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s The operation actually took around 17 seconds. Any suggestions on what I should try next? Thanks, Alex
