On Friday 28 October 2005 10:11, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: > >>My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when > >>CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse > >>point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it > >>via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is > >> left in the log files. How can I find the reason? > > Better get all the stuff backed up... Could be a hard disk failure > coming your way!
sounds like a heating issue, maybe too. Although, if cpu usage is high, mayb ememory is, too. if you've got a bad spot on the disk where swap is, you'll get that behavior. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
