Could there be a correlation between the amount of memory you have and the
freezes? I don't have FC7, but on a FC6 "pristine" installation my 4GB RAM
Dell machine froze very often until I took 1GB out. I don't believe the
specific RAM chips were at fault, but anything else could (including the
amount of RAM and/or something in the motherboard). Do you see the same
freezes with just 2 or 3GB RAM?
Emanuel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Larsen [mailto:k5di@zianet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:31 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day
Dawning Sky wrote:
On 7/24/07, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
> Dawning Sky wrote:
> > On 7/23/07, Rogue <roguexz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Dawning Sky wrote:
> >> > On 6/21/07, William Case <billlinux(a)rogers.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I'm experiencing this freeze too. I've disabled irqbalance,
put
> >> > "noirqbalance" in the kernel parameters, removed compiz. But
my F7
> >> > system still freezes a few times a day.
> >> >
> >> > It appears related to the desktop environment. I can leave it there
> >> > for weeks, with server processes running. But if I sit there and
> >> > using the desktop environment, it then freezes frequently.
> Nothing in
> >> > the log files.
> >> >
> >> > I'm running F7 x86_64, with AMD X2 and the latest nVidia driver.
> I've
> >> > run memtest for hours without errors. The kernel version is
> >> > 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.
> >> >
> >> > DS
> >> >
> >>
> >> Same here. I have these random freezes on my laptop and since I do not
> >> have another m/c to access it, I am completely hosed :-(
> >>
> >> The mouse & keyboard do not respond. I wanted to use compiz but
> then the
> >> system would freeze more often.
> >>
> >> I believe the problem is strongly related to the graphics driver. I
> have
> >> a ATI M300 => radeon300 driver.
> >>
> >> During the recent freezes, the only application that could have caused
> >> an issue was Thunderbird's notification mechanism (which brings up a
> >> popup)
> >>
> >> This behavior is definitely not acceptable. But what frustrates me the
> >> most is the absence of any logs!!!! (Arghhh!!) Any hope of logging
> a bug
> >> so that developers could fix the issue is lost.
> >>
> >> Does any one know how I could capture these error messages? What
> are the
> >> parameters to generate logs for the graphics drivers?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Rogue
> >
> > I updated to the latest 2.6.22 kernel and my machine still freezes on
> > me. So now I'm using the "nv" driver. I'll see if it still
freezes.
> >
> > DS
> >
> I am interested in how your F7 freezes. I had a freeze
> yesterday. What
> happened I think was all the fast RAM got used and it was using the Swap
> partition. I watched my hard drive light and it was on solid. I did
> Ctrl-Alt F1 and in about 3 minutes it dropped to a prompt. But I was
> unable to log in it so slow.
>
> Does this sound like yours?
>
>
> --
>
> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> Linux User
> #450462
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>
No. Not at all. I have 4GB of RAM. And my freeze can only be brought
out of by a hard reset.
DS
Well mine also requires a hard reset to get back to normal. Your 4
GB
of RAM does make it harder to use up but it does happen. While your
computer is frozen look at your hard drive use.
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