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Originally Posted by GoinEasy9
I've had symptoms like yours that were due to a massive build up of the /var/log/messages file. Mine was due to a problem with a printer driver. If the file is GB's big and is filling up your root and the computer is working off of swap, it will slow & bog down everything. Just a thought, check it out.
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Hi, my laptop is also practially freezing and I can hear it swapping,
but don't know why (its a fedora10 running on a Dell, in a small partition with not much free space left, maybe 1GB).
You say that you have a massive build up of the messages file: what do you mean by a massive build up?
In my case it looks like a wlan problem that appears for no reason (sometimes, as in this case, when I opened the lid and wanted to unlock the system, sometimes using adobe acroread reader and firefox)
I write below part of my /var/log/messages.
My big question would be: how can I see what the swapping was all about
(it sounded like when it is booting),
and also,
in my older systems I could type Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F7 and would get another terminal without graphics.
Is there something like that under fedora?
from /var/log/messages:
Jan 17 02:31:53 fpfedora NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
Jan 17 02:32:30 fpfedora NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 8 -> 2
Jan 17 02:32:30 fpfedora NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 0).
Jan 17 02:32:34 fpfedora NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 7843
Jan 17 02:35:43 fpfedora NetworkManager: <WARN> check_one_route(): (wlan0) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Sucess#012
Jan 17 02:35:44 fpfedora avahi-daemon[2399]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.1.105 on wlan0.
Jan 17 02:35:44 fpfedora ntpd[7831]: sendto(200.80.32.172) (fd=22): Invalid argument
Jan 17 02:35:50 fpfedora ntpd[7831]: sendto(200.11.116.1) (fd=22): Invalid argument
Jan 17 02:35:50 fpfedora avahi-daemon[2399]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.105.
Jan 17 02:35:50 fpfedora avahi-daemon[2399]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Jan 17 02:35:55 fpfedora ntpd[7831]: Deleting interface #5 wlan0, 192.168.1.105#123, interface stats: received=158, sent=161, dropped=2, activ
e_time=7760 secs
Jan 17 02:36:19 fpfedora kernel: iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
Jan 17 02:36:23 fpfedora avahi-daemon[2399]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::21c:bfff:fe8c:83e7 on wlan0.
Jan 17 02:36:28 fpfedora ntpd[7831]: Deleting interface #4 wlan0, fe80::21c:bfff:fe8c:83e7#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0
, active_time=7799 secs
Bye,
Fritz