Dustpuppy Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) So, I have 2007 installed on a really old system (desktop 2) and a medium-new-ish system (desktop 1). The old one runs fine, but the new one... every minute when running firefox (and at longer intervals when not running it) I get the system hanging for between 10 and 20 seconds. Nothing works - mouse, keyboard, anything. It happens in KDE, it happens in Gnome, and it even happened in the middle of installing the Nvidia drivers without a gui. It happens if I have the Nvidia drivers installed, and it happens if I run the card under the opensource drivers. I've got all the updates installed, and am running the 2.6.17-5 kernel. I've turned off all the services I don't need, and still it happens. It's driving me bananas, please help! Edited November 1, 2006 by Dustpuppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Whats your login manager? I had problems in 2006 using gdm and it would kill my system in about 7 minutes or more regardless of what I was doing. Basically, the swap file got completely utilised and was causing my system to hang. You could temporarily disable swap, and see if it gets better, mine did when I did this, since it wasn't killing the system by hogging the disk all the time. Using kdm as the login manager, and I had no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Thanks Ian... For some bizarre reason it's now stopped doing it... so far :) I've rebooted for the first time since turning off all the services I didn't need, and disabling IPv6 in sysconfig. Maybe that did it :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Could be, ipv6 usually stalls and causes problems with network traffic though, but it could have been related. See how it goes :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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