Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Pierre-Yves Rofes: > On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a > > single > > application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing into it > > takes forever. After a while (up to ~30s ) normal reaction is back again. > > Strange thing is, there is no activity at the times this happens. Reading > > email and browsing the web is all that is needed. CPU is at 3-5% > > according to > > top, mem has ~1GB free according to free.
> Maybe a faulty hard drive with bad sectors that can't be read. Anything in > /var/log/messages or any other log file? no sorry, I should have mentioned that. Nothing in the logs. I am currently trying out, what Etaoin Shrdlu suggested in the thread "Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking". I switched from cfq to deadline scheduler. No hang since I did that. Maybe that did the trick? I'll let you know :) > Pierre-Yves Rofes Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
