.649 and .667 kernels and random lockups

[Brian Millett]

> Hi Everyone,
>  I've upgraded two machines to fc3rc5(ish) and then upgraded again to
> latest rawhide. I've been running the .649 and .667 kernels on these two
> systems. One is a dell dimension 2400 - p4 2.8ghz the other is an ibm
> x23 thinkpad - p3-866mhz. Both of them will lockup if they sit idle for
> a while. It's a hard lock up, I can't free them of it and I have no idea
> what causes it. Is anyone else seeing this, too?

Seth, I have.  I have a toshiba 1135-S155 laptop running rawhide.  I've
noticed that several times as I am composing an email in evolution or once
in openoffice, the system will freeze.  The disk light is solid.  If I am
quick, I can get to a virtual terminal as X is locked.  The top process is
kswapd0.  It happens randomly.  I have not been able to determine if this
happens only when RAM is getting full, or if VM is getting full.  I can
get it to stop ONLY when I am in the vertual term and I wait for kswapd0
to stop.  Then I can go back to X and work.  I have no idea what the
underlying problem is.  I first thought it was OO and fonts because the
problem went away when I changed all of the fonts in teh document to be
the same.  But then it has happened in evolution, so I do not know any
more.


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