[Eug-lug] Random freezes

[Allen Brown]

If you can no longer ssh in from another computer then it is
probably total lockup.  Otherwise it isn't clear.

Generally I've had X lockups caused by netscape or mozilla.
Kill that app and everything clears up.  Mozilla is better
than netscape, but it still causes problems.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
   I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as
   my telephone.  My wish has come true.  I no longer know how to
   use my telephone. --- Bjarne Stroustrup, CS prof, designer of C++

Martin Kelly wrote:
> 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