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* Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response
  @ 2007-02-06 22:44 99%     ` Michael Schreckenbauer
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From: Michael Schreckenbauer @ 2007-02-06 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote:
> > On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> > > From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a
> > > single
> > > application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing into
> > > it takes forever. After a while (up to ~30s ) normal reaction is back
> > > again. Strange thing is, there is no activity at the times this
> > > happens. Reading email and browsing the web is all that is needed. CPU
> > > is at 3-5% according to
> > > top, mem has ~1GB free according to free.
> > Maybe a faulty hard drive with bad sectors that can't be read. Anything
> > in /var/log/messages or any other log file?
> >
> > --
> > Pierre-Yves Rofes
>
> I am not sure that something is 'broken'. His problem is like mine... heavy
> disk i/o kills performance. And if the box hits swap, everything sucks....
> because for some reason, always the wrong stuff is swapped out ;)
> Really, sometimes, it is like every single bit is fetched individually from
> the swap space...

I don't think, swap is the cause of this. This system has 1,5GB Ram, swap is 
nearly never touched :)

Thanks,
Michael
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