On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:50:43 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> James wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:55:34PM +0000 : > > > > before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the > > form of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this > > starts to happen I know to reboot the box and I'm back to normal. > > Top shows no runaway programs CPU usage generally stays below 40% > > bit a mean average of about 20% (I really don't do anything that > > intense) Swap never > > Other suggestions: > 1) 'killall artsd' (assuming you're running KDE, you won't be able to > share /dev/dsp anymore) Did it already. No change. > 2) Any Western Digital hard drives? I've been around to long to make that mistake. *grin* > 3) 'dmesg' Look for any kind of errors accessing the hard drive. None. That's why the 80gig ..... hdparm has it at 56mbps This number stays relatively consistant. When the box starts "dying" however hdparm like other applications can't start. > 4) 'hdparm -t /dev/hda' or whatever your hard drive is. Do it right > after bootup, and do it when it starts to slow down, and do it when > it's barely crawling. No changes. It doesn't slow down... things just start dieing or being unable to start. Speed of the drives doesn't change a bit. > 5) If you ssh to it from another box, is it strange there as well > (trying to rule out the display as a culprit). Yes it can be strange. If X dies I have about 2 - 3 minutes before the box locks up totally. Can't even SSH into it but if I'm already in the session doesn't die... just the box is locked to input from keyboard. I've now got another box doing the same thing but not as often. It too has an intel all in one Mobo. What kind I'm not sure as this box is an HP Pavillion It's been running Mandrake Linux since 7.2. With RH 6.4 and SuSe 6.2 on it before that. The only commonality between them otherwise is that both run KDE3 instead of KDE2.2. That and the fact that they both use the i810 drivers (the pavillion is i810 the ASUS is i815 chipsets. or their drivers.) One point to note, when lilo is set to devfs=mount and I do ctrl-alt-f1(or any other f key) X dies within seconds of the switch and requires a reboot in order to restart it. (Same case on both boxes) One point to note. I've got 2 k-6's and 1 pentium running the same software setup that are rock solid. (the pentium is dog slow but solid.) Maybe it is the chipset. I've put in an older Voodoo video card I had (PCI) and a trident AGP without change. So it's probably not the onboard video. As always thanks for the help. My next step on this box is to install FreeBSD into a spare partition for dual booting and see if conditions are the same. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn > Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk >
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