Laptop lockup

[Neil Cherry]

NoOp wrote:
> On 02/21/2008 08:53 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
> 
>>> BTW: What is your laptop & laptop specs (memory, cpu, ram etc)?
>> model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 2.80GHz
>> stepping        : 9
>> cpu MHz         : 1599.960
>> cache size      : 512 KB
>>
>>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:        498880     481952      16928          0      10424     146012
>> -/+ buffers/cache:     325516     173364
>> Swap:       698788      32252     666536
>>
>> 40G Drive
>>
> 
> Model?
> 
> Another question? Are you seeing disk activity (disk light) when it does
> this?
> 
> Reason for asking is that I have another system (desktop) that exhibits
> almost exactly what you are seeing on your laptop if it sits idle for
> some time. In fact it just did it this morning. I can see the disk light
> thrashing about, however if I Ctl-Alt+F1, the tty1 login eventually
> comes up (takes about 2 min as I think the disk activity is taking up
> all of the cpu), but it takes another 2 minutes between the username and
> password prompt. Once I get in, the tty is pretty much unusable as it
> takes 2 minutes between each command.

I have seen this on a Fedora install at work. I'll check tracker
on that machine. I've killed tracker and its like on my other
Fedora machine.

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