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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:46:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ED755E.1000103@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <739784.81690.qm@web46009.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Luis Sousa wrote:
> I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.

We need more info, namely full 'dmesg', 'lspci -v', and your kernel config.

Also, make /sure/ you are not running closed-source modules known to 
crash the system, like ndiswrapper or nvidia graphics driver.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 22:24 sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24 Luis Sousa
2008-03-28 22:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-03-28 23:03   ` Luis Sousa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-29  0:22 Luis Sousa
2008-03-29 17:09 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-04-05  5:44 Luis Sousa
2008-04-12  0:59 Luis Sousa
2008-04-12  7:30 devzero

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