10.04 troubleshoot system freeze

[Steve Malenfant]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:

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> scar @ 02/25/2011 09:49 PM:
> > [snip]
> > i think i will leave this 'watch -n 10 free' open and see what it looks
> > like next time the system freezes.  maybe the system really is running
> > out of memory.
>
> well, i'm stumped.  the system doesn't seem to be running out of memory.
>  it froze earlier today, and this was the last update of 'free' on the
> terminal:
>
> Every 10.0s: free                                Sat Feb 26 16:45:39 2011
>
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       8193780    1877264    6316516          0     198988     836332
> - -/+ buffers/cache:     841944    7351836
> Swap:      3903480          0    3903480
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>
> this is very frustrating and rather serious, since this system is
> running our security cameras.
>
> I had these freeze issues only when the system when running some video
(mythfrontend) and could make it crash by encoding with handbrake. Then, I
swapped the RAM. Its been running fine since. Just an idea.


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