[SLUG] Nee naa nee naa

[David Webster]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> Hi ppl
>
> So. I walk out of the office, do some shopping, eat lunch, etc, come
> back and my office smells of warm electronics and the motherboard's
> going nee naa nee naa nee naa.
>
> This has been a problem since I upgraded to Fedora 6 (from 3).
>
> The computer's not supposed to be working. Sometimes it's just sat
> there with a text editor open. But if I switch on system monitor it
> looks like this:
> <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/test3/Screenshot-System%20Monitor.png>.
> As soon as I arrive and start using the mouse, all that CPU activity
> dies down again.
>
> It looks to me like the core's got itself into a mess swapping
> nonsense from one CPU to the other. But with Linux that's the last
> thing I'd expect. Or should I set something in the BIOS I wonder.
>
> I'm using an AOpen AX4SPE series motherboard with Intel Pentium 4 3E GHz.
>
> I want to cure the problem, not mask it with more fans. It's a quiet
> PC after all.
>
> Anyone any clues?
>
>   
I've had a similar thing on my Fedora Core 5 box at Scarb. Uni.  I found 
that it was getting REALLY slow and 'top' told me that the beagle 
indexing service was maxing out the cpu.

I reset the machine and it didn't do it again.  May have been a bug that 
cropped up.

Dave