Hello all,

this one isn't exactly a concrete question, rather a request for guidance - on where to look for the questions.

After a compile from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12 I started experiencing stutter under r/w operations - e.g. I would be updating the system using APT and playback would be interrupted, to the point of xmms deciding to skip that track, and the mouse turning irresponsive. Same thing would happen in a memory-intensive computation (with matlab, for example).
I didn't quite figure out what was the cause - tried with and without preemption, unloaded the RTC module, but to no avail.

And yesterday, after starting the machine afresh, I wondered why xterm was taking so long to complete a path (it was already unresponsive) I fired up another console and tried to run top. Here it hit the fan: I got "segmentation fault", "can't execute binary file" and even "tried to access disk beyond limit". Running e2fsck brought a series of illegal inodes, and even after a clean pass, top is still "segmentation fault".
Now, this is a laptop computer, the ext3 partition containing top is never accessed by other OSs, it hasn't suffered power outages for at least a year, and after a seach in the net I found something about a series 2.2 kernel corruption FSs.

So, those are my issues. They're not concrete questions yet, since I haven't been able to track the sources of the problems - which, AFAIK are not related. Any hints on how to pinpoint what's wrong? I'm trying not to wipe the partition containing the system, since it's my prime and very well fine-tuned, but would rather do it sooner than later.

Thanks in advance,

Jose

did u select the right modules while compiling the new kernel