Re: Instability/disk chugging with Thinkpad R50p
From: Bill Waddington (william.waddington_at_beezmo.com)
Date: 12/15/04
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:24:46 -0800
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:41:32 -0800, Marty <net@comcast.martyamodeo>
wrote:
>Hi folks.
>
>I've got a Thinkpad R50p with Redhat 8 on it. For some reason, it seems
>that any heavy disk activity makes the system tank in a big way (only
>responds to power off). I can lock up my system simply by gunzip'ing a
>200MB file. Any unsustained but heavy disk activity causes noticable
>wheezing of the rest of the system (mouse cursor jumping, excrutiatingly
>slow redraws, etc.). The system load also spikes to 100%, as expected.
Looking back at my R40 page http://www.beezmo.com/ThinkPadR40.htm
I see:
"The stock 8.0 kernel (2.4.18-14) had severe problems with the IDE
chipset of this R40, but an updated kernel (2.4.20-13.8) resolved that
issue."
I don't remember the exact details, except that stock RH8 didn't
work...
Not sure if that relates to your R50p issues, but if you are using the
stock RH8 kernel, an upgrade might sort things out.
Bill
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