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System freezes driving me up the wall [solved]


Dustpuppy
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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!

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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.

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