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Re: [opensuse] Computer freezes a lot
- From: "John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:37:13 -0700
- Message-id: <60fb01490806162137o240dfa11t7ce705e93293f385@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Having seen this situation in the past on one or two of my machines,
I'm going on record saying its the drive, not the port.
Serious problems with drives will freeze the port so the kernel
decides something hast to be reset.
I've had this happen with disks having heat problems, but most
often with disks that were just flat failing.
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<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The disk port is not responding, so the kernel decides to resets it. During
that time, nothing can be read from the disk, and all processes needing i/o
are stopped, frozen.
Having seen this situation in the past on one or two of my machines,
I'm going on record saying its the drive, not the port.
Serious problems with drives will freeze the port so the kernel
decides something hast to be reset.
I've had this happen with disks having heat problems, but most
often with disks that were just flat failing.
From the kernel's perspective all it can see is the buss or portso that's what it diagnoses.
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