Aspire One lock-up issue

[Curtis Vaughan]

Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>> Alas it has happened again and this time when I was just downloading a 
> tar file.
>> I have seen posts where people with the same problem apparently ended up 
>>  returning their comps to Acer. I just hope I don't have to go down 
> that road.
> 
> Just curious, do you have cpu frequency scaling and its utility installed?
> 
> dpkg --get-selections | grep cpufrequtils
> 
> If you have:
> cpufrequtils              install
> 
> It means you have them. Now, my netbook is a VIA C7-M ULV (vs your Atom processor within that Aspire One), I have to raise cpu frequency scaling's minimum frequency value to stop those random freezing. You might want to take a look in your system's frequency settings:
> 
> sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
> 
> VIA C7-M 1.2GHz minimum frequency value was 400004, I had to raise it to 500000 (add below line just before "exit 0" line in /etc/rc.local file):
> 
> echo "500000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
> 
> (Above is a one contigeous line) Afterwards reboot, use and observe. Raise the value if necessary.
> 
> I must admit, Atom processor is definitely not same with VIA processor, but perhaps it suffer from same underclock problem incited by cpufrequtils. Worth to try. Oh, almost forgot, don't remove cpufrequtils. These application are responsible to prolong your battery charge by downclocking (thus preserve electricity) within processor. Normally you have an "ondemand" setting which may throttle processing power up and down.
> 

I think Anthony and Brian hit upon the solution. At least since doing 
the changes they suggest, I have not had any lock-ups. But we'll see. 
It's only been a couple of days.
Thanks!