[plug] Weird Linux Problems

[Tim White]

Yes. With rtkit disabled, I can now run everything without it freezing. 
I've had collectd running for a few months, so hopefully now the CPU 
usage should drop to almost 0.

Tim

On 05/11/11 12:25, Alexander Hartner wrote:
> Are you able to run top, PS etc yet.
>
> Tim White<weirdit at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I believe it is caused by rtkit, which tries to make pulseaudio run with
>> realtime priorities.
>>
>> Have no disabled rtkit to see what happens.
>>
>> Still no idea why the dns lookup came back reversed.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 05/11/11 11:24, Tim White wrote:
>>> I'm trying to remotely diagnose a linux machine that is having some
>>> odd problems. Things like top and ps just hang part way through a
>>> listing. Trying to do dmesg to the terminal hangs, but dmesg to a file
>>> doesn't.
>>>
>>> It's recently had a memory upgrade from 1Gb to 4Gb, so eventually I
>>> want to run memtest on it (but being remote, can't do that atm). It's
>>> running Ubuntu 11.10.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing it must be some hardware driver issue, but can't work out
>>> which one yet (lsmod even hangs).
>>>
>>> The last odd thing that happened, is a dns lookup returned the ip
>>> address in reverse! But this I believe was the adsl modem doing it,
>>> anyone heard of that happening? (Lookup for purewhite.id.au returned
>>> 10.45.41.175 instead of 175.41.45.10)
>>>
>>> Any hints on what might be causing these hangs?
>>>
>>> Tim
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