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* Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response
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@ 2007-02-06 22:29 99%   ` Michael Schreckenbauer
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From: Michael Schreckenbauer @ 2007-02-06 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Pierre-Yves Rofes:
> 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?

no sorry, I should have mentioned that. Nothing in the logs.
I am currently trying out, what Etaoin Shrdlu suggested in the 
thread "Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking".
I switched from cfq to deadline scheduler. No hang since I did that. Maybe 
that did the trick? I'll let you know :)

> Pierre-Yves Rofes

Thanks,
Michael
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