--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Runing unstable on a Dell dimensions XPS T450 with > 128 > > Mb Ram and 384 Mb Swap Partition on a 13 Gb HD. I > run > > KDE with usually 4 or 5 session Konsole windows > open > > and the Mozilla browser and perhaps an embedded > modia > > player open-nothing else. Before a few minutes > pass(< > > 5 min.), the HD starts making noise, reading and > > writing, then the mouse becomes > unresponsive(clicking > > anything wont respond for several minutes) and may > > even disappear(pointer) for a minute of so. After > > several minutes pass(maybe 15-20 min.) the system > > begins to respond normally again after the HD > slows > > down it's read/write activity. During the total > time > > this phenomena is occurring, the system is totally > > useless. Can't even shut it down. I don't know if > > this is even a swap issue or what to do about it > or > > whether it may be a virus infection or some setup > > issue. It is totally unacceptable and I could use > some > > serious help in pinning it down and getting it > fixed. > > Please copy my email address as I'm not > subscribed. > > > > > > I'd start by seeing if it happens with another user. > In a different windowing environment. > In a simple X session (twm or icewm, etc) > In console without X running at all. > In single-user mode. > > Then I'd post the results here. > > -- > Kent > > Thanks for the reply. I have 3 users, two very basic trying to get embedded mplayer to work, and it occurs on all. Sawfish and Metacity wont load. Debian gnome is no longer installed (sid and aptitude decided I no longer need it) but the few times I used it, it did the same. Don't have TWM and ICEWM installed and never used them. Never have been able to use xinit or startx but after putting a stop on kdm, they workded from tty as root. But all the time, I was doing this and ever since composing this reply, the HD was running rampant. It just now has stopped while running kde mozilla with startx. Downloaded, installed TWM with xinit which was very slow and stopped at points in the install process using a vt and the HD still running constantly. Rebooted into single user mode but the HD activity had already stopped and usually once it does I have no more problems for a while unless I leave the computer running for a long time. Haven't used single user mode much and may have not used it as you wanted. When prompted I selected control-D instead of giving root pwd for maintenance. Never could get twm to run. Always got "could not start display for whatever I used for -display dpy. I used xdm, kdm gdm, X, X:0.0 and X11 all yielding the same error message. Hope this answers all, if not, be glad to try more with more specific how tos. In, short, once the HD activity stopped after about a hour, it hasn't restarted. Took about 3 hours to compose this reply mostly due to the delay during the HD activity. Leonard Chatagnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
