Suse 11.2 Unstable Intel Video may be the culprit
Hello.
I have a 6-year old Gateway PC with an Intel 2GHZ processor, 30GB of hard drive space, and an integrated Intel 82845G/GL Graphics
I'm running a dual-boot with Suse and WindowsXP
After I have installed the system for awhile, I get random "freezes" of my system. By this I mean that the mouse moves but nothing I click on does anything. Also, I can't type or open up a terminal. In fact, the only way out of it is to hit ALT-SysRq-r-s-e-i-u-b
The last time it froze I had 7 tabs internet tabs open: 5 suse/linux websites, 1 rivals.com website, and 1 hotmail (no significant video or audio streaming was going on). I managed to have the terminal open before it happened this time, with the command "top" running. Here is what it froze to:
top - 21:12:55 up 3:26 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.21, 0.26
tasks: 113 total, 3 running, 110 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
cpu(s): 2.3% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% mi, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa,0.0% hi, 0.0% si, 0.0% st
mem: 1289484k total, 877388k used, 412096k free, 50900k buffers
swap: 2931852k total, 0k used, 2931852k free, 613692k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7377 nick 20 0 98732 18m 12m R 2.3 1.4 1:01.50 npviewer.bin
7250 nick 20 0 242m 98m 23m R 1.7 7.8 9:20.88 firefox
3338 nick 20 0 2336 1020 776 S 0.7 0.1 1:06.99 top
7306 nick 20 0 2336 1016 768 R 0.7 0.1 0:20.55 top
0004 root 15 -5 0000 0000 0000 S 0.3 0.0 0:02.93 ksoftirqd/0
0001 root 20 0 1940 0660 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.14 init
0002 root 15 -5 0000 0000 0000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
.
.
.
Two things stand out to me: the 98732 number under VIRT for PID 7377, and PID4 whose command is "ksoftirqd/0"
hopefully this information is helpful.
take care.
|
