From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 08:54:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D0B16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from woad.digitalcelt.net (woad.digitalcelt.net [65.68.132.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC89B43D2F for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gobinau@digitalcelt.net) Received: by woad.digitalcelt.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 03E81401D; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:57:17 -0600 (CST) From: "Reuben A. Popp" Organization: digitalcelt.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:56:30 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402111057.17704.gobinau@digitalcelt.net> Subject: System lockups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gobinau@digitalcelt.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:54:55 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morning all :) I've been experiencing some severe system freezes lately, and I wanted to s= ee=20 if anyone might be able to offer any clues/advice on what I might be able t= o=20 do. The box in question is my main workstation as well as ftp/mail server,= =20 and is running 4.9-STABLE. The freezes appear to only happen when I'm in XFree with KDE (at least, I'v= e=20 never had it freeze on me with X/KDE not running). The KDE is version 3.1.= 4,=20 and XFree is 4.3.0 (I believe). At the point where the box freezes, it sto= ps=20 responding to any physical input as well as any network activity. The=20 harddrives do not appear to be spinning either. I know this is extremely=20 vague, but I don't have much of an idea on how to continue. =20 So far, I've cvsup'd the latest sources and ports, built world and a new=20 kernel (Generic with support for my soundcard.. a soundblaster live 5.1), a= nd=20 used portupgrade (portupgrade -arRcC). I even went so far as to remove my= =20 ~.kde and .kderc to see if that would possibly have any effect. For a litt= le=20 bit (~8 days), it seemed to be doing better, and then it began its deviant= =20 behavior again. It has increased in occurance, but still seems to be rando= m,=20 beyond the fact that XFree and KDE are running. :(. I'm curious to know what might be causing these freezes, as it's never done= =20 this before. I did recently replace an older harddrive (80 gigs versus the= =20 original 8 gigs). Beyond that, I rarely add or change anything physically.= =20 Taken from top: last pid: 844; load averages: 0.08, 0.10, 0.10 up 0+01:20:36 =20 21:42:51 57 processes: 1 running, 56 sleeping CPU states: 15.1% user, 0.0% nice, 5.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 79.5% id= le Mem: 122M Active, 145M Inact, 56M Wired, 232K Cache, 48M Buf, 51M Free Swap: 752M Total, 752M Free One thing I did also recently was totally clear out /tmp (again, to see if = it=20 had any effect). It seems to be doing a little better, although I will see= =20 as time goes on. Please, any information or help would be greatly=20 appreciated, as if I can't figure this out, I'll be forced to replace this= =20 machine.. something I'm not really able to do financially at this time. =20 Please let me know if any other system info or specs are needed, and thanks= =20 in advance :) Cheers, Reuben A. Popp =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAKl7rd1N/Kyhy5tIRAkFiAJ96JT/9TfbpnRdWRZSXNwWQCTRoYQCcDxje 4hRGUFoMu1jMsBwV75n3VOI=3D =3D0CzJ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----