[Eug-lug] Random freezes

[Martin Kelly]

Nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg... I don't think it's the kernel, 
thankfully.

Yeah, I wasn't able to do Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get to a virtual tty. Is X able 
to free that up?

I've got 512MB ram and usually my RAM usage is between 75-200 (I'm 
running XFCE too)... I don't think it's RAM. Also, things weren't slow 
before the freeze, either time.

I just switched to amarok and I'm not getting crashes anymore. I'm 
thinking it might've been XMMS's fault. I'd heard it was buggy, but 
crashing a whole system? Also, I've been using XMMS for almost a year 
and never had the problem... weird.

Martin

larry price wrote:
> /var/log/messages might have something
> if there were kernel messages they might show up in the output of dmesg
> 
> are you sure it wasn't strictly an X freeze up? (were you able to
> suspend the X session and use a tty session to talk to the box?)
> 
> how much memory + swap do you have on the box? (if you are trying to
> cram 2GB worth of activity into 128MB ram + 512MB swap that will slow
> things to a crawl)
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/8/07, Martin Kelly <aomighty at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have just had my computer freeze twice within 10 minutes or so.
>> Activities: xorg, XMMS, firefox, apache serving a 60MB or so download.
>> Both times, the freeze happened when the person downloading from me was
>> at 14%... I don't know if this is a coincidence or not. Note these were
>> complete frezes, not just xorg freezes... it was very strange.
>>
>> My question is if anybody knows what log files I might check to find the
>> cause of the freeze. Also, do you think it has something to do with the
>> downloading?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
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