From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Raseel Bhagat" Subject: Re: system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:41:31 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20060817141403.10351.qmail@web81707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1155859868.6787.8.camel@localhost> <200608261255.33306.kloro2006@gmail.com> <20060827012228.5549032E99@kevin.kevino.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060827012228.5549032E99@kevin.kevino.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 8/27/06, mike@kevino.org wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:55:33 -0700 > tom arnall wrote: > > > My system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs. The event coincides with > > a 'top' entry in which 'events/0' grabs 50-95% of cpu capacity. How can I > > determine what is causing the event? This is a long-shot but the last time I had the same problem it turned out that there had developed a loose connection with the heat-sink and processor on the motherboard. As a result, the processor used to over-heat in about every 3 minutes or so, the watchdogs would come into picture and cause the machine to hang or reboot.... usually reboot. Just give a quick check on your hardware before probing into the software side. -- Raseel. http://osd.byethost8.com http://raseel.livejournal.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs