RE: Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

[Emanuel Machado]

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:[e-mail]] 
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  wrote:
> > Dawning Sky wrote:
> > > On 7/23/07, Rogue  wrote:
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> > > > Dawning Sky wrote:
> > > > > On 6/21/07, William Case  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   http://counter.li.org.
>
> 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.