[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Tue May 22 14:16:07 CEST 2012


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On 22/05/12 12:36, Robert Fox wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 12:11 +0200, AL13N wrote:
>>> On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Any hints what I could check?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash
>>>> problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I
>>>> surfed - firefox freezes off and on and it is really
>>>> frustrating.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Nope, but I got into same pb during a while, the freezing 
>>> occurred during a few secs and only when I was surfing, so I 
>>> ended up also suspecting firefox and plugin stuff. It
>>> disappears in my case with recent updates though.
>> 
>> I remember i used to have an old machine with nvnet nvidia
>> onboard network, and it seemed then whenever there was big-ish
>> network traffic, the display seemed to hang for a bit...
> 
> I have ruled out CPU and graphic over utilization - as well as
> heavy network traffic.  I also just experienced this phenomenon on
> my newish Thinkpad X220 with an i7-2620 processor and Intel
> graphics card - 8Gig memory and 512 SSD - I had to reboot because
> the whole system was unresponsive.
> 
> I have yet to find the cause, and the logs up to this point are not
>  helping . . . maybe I should file a bug, but want to see if this
> is machine specific or something more serious with the latest
> kernels.
> 
I had this problem recently- just on one day.  Like you, I couldn't
pinpoint the problem and had to reboot.  The only thing this (netbook)
system has in common with yours is Intel graphics.

Anne

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