From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 8 20:08:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C62816A418 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:08:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866B413C45D; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4783D824.1050502@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:08:04 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Toomas Aas References: <1199812249.96494.133.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> <4783C8A8.2090705@raad.tartu.ee> <4783D41B.3000204@FreeBSD.org> <4783D748.1050401@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <4783D748.1050401@raad.tartu.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Wayne Sierke Subject: Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE desktop system periodically freezes momentarily X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:08:06 -0000 Toomas Aas wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Toomas Aas wrote: >>> I have a 6.3-PRERELEASE system (last cvsupped Dec 12), which always >>> freezes *once* a few minutes after booting up. > >> This is usually when your system accesses swap because you ran out of >> free RAM. > > Hmm, I thought that 768 MB RAM (minus 16 for integrated video) should be > enough for anyone ;) at least when just running fluxbox with no apps > started yet. Right now 'top' shows that no swap is being used and I have > Thunderbird, Firefox, xchat, xmms, xcalc and 5 xterms with ssh sessions: > > last pid: 1264; load averages: 1.04, 1.04, 1.01 up 0+02:07:15 21:59:30 > 82 processes: 2 running, 80 sleeping > CPU states: 0.4% user, 98.5% nice, 1.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle > Mem: 149M Active, 227M Inact, 100M Wired, 1388K Cache, 84M Buf, 251M Free > Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free > > but of course I can't claim that swap wasn't being used when the problem > happened. > > I do understand that there is virtually nothing in my initial posting > that could possibly help track down the problem. I just got this "me > too" feeling. OK, it is not in use now, but check again immediately after the pause. Kris