Re: debian sarge freeze computer

From: Maximilian Attems (debian_at_sternwelten.at)
Date: 08/08/05

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:44:11 +0200
To: alex@alexfisher.me.uk

    On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:11:41AM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote:
    > On 8/2/05, Paulo Neves <igod.pt@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > Hi Alexander,
    > >
    > > Hummm, I think this IBM computers don't like kernel 2.6 :).
    > >
    > > I install kernel 2.4.27 and until now works fine too.
    > >
    > > Regards,
    > > Paulo
    > >
    > > On 8/2/05, Alexander Fisher <alexjfisher@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > > Paulo Neves wrote:
    > > > > Hi all,
    > > > >
    > > > > I have a problem that occurs on 2 IBM PIV 2.4Ghz, 1 Gb RAM and 40Gb
    > > > > IDE HDD with debian sarge 3.1 (kernel 2.6).
    > > > > On other computer, the same debian don't give-me any problem.
    > > >
    > > > Hi
    > > > I've exactly the same problem with similar symtoms. Its also on IBM
    > > > 2.4Ghz P4s (Netvistas - I've tried two identical machines). Its not
    > > > like its a complete freeze, but the system becomes *so* slow it may as
    > > > well be. For example, the 'beep' you get when bash autocomplete fails
    > > > lasts for several seconds. A shutdown takes tens of minutes. I've no
    > > > graphical environment installed and am pretty sure that its a kernel
    > > > issue.
    > > > I've witnessed this problem on both 2.6.8-2 and 2.6.11-1 (from
    > > > unstable). So far, 2.4.27-2 seems to be unaffected. I'm not sure
    > > > about load average, but my cpu average was also around 0%. If it
    > > > helps, I'm using XFS on top of LVM on top of RAID 1.
    > > > Any suggestions? I might give a vanilla 2.6.12.3 kernel a go.
    > > >
    > > > Kind Regards,
    > > > Alex
    > > >
    > Hi All.
    > I'm still trying to get this fixed. I've cc-ed the debian kernel list
    > to see if anybody there has any thoughts.
    > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00072.html
    >
    > In my opinion using a 2.4 kernel is at best a workaround and not a solution.
    >
    > I've given 2.6.12-1-686 a go. It also slows right down after a while.
    > I just ran "time sleep 1"
    > real 0m0.000s
    > user 0m0.000s
    > sys 0m0.000s
    > The operation actually took around 17 seconds. Any suggestions on
    > what I should try next?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Alex

    try with the 2.6.12 image acpi=off pci=routeirq lapic=off
    you may need one of those or all.
    if that doesn't work please report bug on bugzilla.kernel.org

    on wednesday i'm back and i could supply you with an 2.6.13-rc6 image. 

    --
maks
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