[Wylug-help] Re: [Wylug-discuss] Ubuntu freezes

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 25 Feb 2005 11:10, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > That box has given me endless trouble since the day it was built.
> > Mandrake 10.1 freezes from time to time, with never anything in the log
> > to give me a clue.  The only thing I'm sure of is that it will freeze if
> > anything gives rise to continuing errors in syslog.  It doesn't matter
> > what the error is, it appears maybe 5 or 6 times, then there's a freeze.
> > Deal with the problem and it's stable again until next time something
> > gets upset.
>
> So it's locking up after writing to syslog?  DMA issues with the hard disk
> perhaps?  Try disabling dma with hdparm on the drive that you're logging to
> and see if that stop it (although it will be somewhat treacley).
>
I'll try it, John, though that would make the box unusable, I think, for
video-processing, which is its main task.  Still, if that turns out to be the
problem I guess a new hdd would fix it.

Anne
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