On Wednesday July 28 2010, C wrote:
I've finally upgraded my main computer to 11.3 w/KDE4 - actually a clean install of 11.3 in a fresh partition, and a new /home/$USER so nothing from 11.2 is interfering. I can still boot to 11.2 as a comparison.
The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze.
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I've had this problem on an 11.3 system with an nVidia 8600GT and the proprietary driver. GKrellM shows spikes of high CPU usage on irregular intervals and of durations from less than a second to 2 or maybe 3 seconds duration. In each case, it is always CPU 0 (of two) and the kernel / user mix is about 70% / 30%. The problem stopped when I booted with vmalloc=192M (and then put it in /boot/grub/menu.lst). In fact, I could almost never get the X server to start without vmalloc=192M, but when I could, the pauses made using the system an excruciating experience. I also found that the nomodeset argument [1] seemed to be of no consequence, though I left it in my system's menu.lst file. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
C.
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