Hi maurice, Thanks for your help.
Answer your question. On 8/1/05, Maurice O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may or may not be related, but proper cooling is one of the most > common problems causing computers to lock up. > Does the box run OK for a while from a cold boot! > maurice Yes, it does. After cold boot, works fine. This computers had been working fine with redhat 9 for some month, now I have been upgrade to debian and have this problem...and the curious is that this only occurs to this two IBM computers that have same hardware configuration. Other computers works fine. I don't think its cooling because with redhat 9 system works fine, could redhat 9 change cooling ? Maurice, is there any log/procediment that I could read/done to see whats is failing ? thanks, Paulo > > 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. > > > >After some hours execution (with or without activities ), the computer > >seems to freeze, they work very slow with high load average but cpu % > >usage very low or zero. > > > >I disable APM, but problem continue. > >I don't know what occurs, and I haven't any direction how to see whar occurs. > > > > > >I see on google that could be UDMA, but I don't know. I will try to disable > >dma. > > > >Could anyone help-me, give-me some directions to solve problem ? > > > >I don't know if it will help, but same machines with redhat 9 (kernel > >2.4) don't have this problem. > > > > > > > >Thanks, > >Paulo > > > > > > > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------- Paulo Jorge Zagalo das Neves Linux User # 61096 ----------------------------------------------