Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

[Dawning Sky]

On 7/22/07, Hansen <mht at alfansa.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 14:17 -0700, Dawning Sky 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
> I'm experience with this too but at very rare occurrence, but that
> usually about X server that push CPU to almost 100% working. The machine
> still available trough ssh and I must kill the X server and gdm bring
> back again.
> I think the freeze usually is about the kernel or X server. Maybe you
> can try with nv driver for video and if still freeze you can check your
> computer availability from network for searching who's the cause
> freezing.

What I'm experiencing is not just X server freeze.  It's something
more serious.  I cannot ssh to it.  Cannot even ping it.  Have to do a
hard reset.

I think I'll have to try the nv driver to see if it is caused by the
nvidia driver.

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DS