Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing

From: Mark v Wolher
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 16:15:55 EST


Mark v Wolher wrote:
> Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>
>>>Hmm, i disabled MSI in the kernel, irq-balancing is on in the kernel,
>>>and after a restart with irqbalance i see the cpu's show numbers !
>>>I guess MSI was preventing them ? But does that means because of MSI
>>>that performance was lower in some way ?
>>
>>
>>did you also restart with only irqbalance activated?
>>
>>
>>Folkert van Heusden
>>
>
>
> Yes, when MSI was disabled i had irq-balancing in the kernel on, i
> rebooted without the irqbalance daemon and it showed no reaction on the
> cpu's. When i enabled the irqbalance daemon then i got finally reaction
> from the cpu's.
>
> I'm also curious if this will solve those random freezes...which somehow
> i suspect have to do with the tvcard and maybe having MSI on.
>

:( just got a total freeze, number 2 today. This time i noticed the
mouse started to go very slow and 2 seconds later all was frozen.

Maybe it's because of vmware ... i will not use vmware and see how it goes.
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