[plug] Machine stops for a second - then continues on

[William Kenworthy]

Some earlier 2.4 kernel versions were prone to that, particularly
disastrous for cd-burning:

check DMA on HD, CDROM, CDRW
unmarskirq
get latest kernel (> 2.4.19+?)

BillK


On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 05:37, Onno Benschop wrote:
> My machine has this habit of running along, then all of a sudden it
> stops for a second - sometimes longer - then continues on as if nothing
> happened. (You know, a cat throws a vase of the table, then looks at you
> as if to say: "No it wasn't me, the vase just jumped off the table all
> by itself.")
> 
> The symptoms during this freeze are:
>       * The mouse moves, but nothing happens when you click - but the
>         clicks are stored and used after the freeze. (As are keyboard
>         strokes.)
>       * The system activity applet in my menu-bar - running grey with
>         niced applications (seti at home) will go black (no processor use),
>         then stay black for the freeze, then continue on normally.
>       * Music keeps playing.
>       * Applications just stop - or appear to at least.
> 
> I'm thinking that the window manager is still humming along - the applet
> updates with system activity and the mouse cursor moves, but something
> isn't...
> 
> Now I'm not expecting you to have seen this before - but if you have -
> great -> give!, otherwise, how would I go about tracking this down?
> 
> The problem seems intermittent, not related to any particular activity
> or system load, not reproducible.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Onno Benschop 
> 
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