Today events: * another freeze -- this ruins my theory of saturation, only 2 days difference * and installation as you wrote: > - Try the newer upstream kernel, available in OBS Kernel:stable > repo. You have a better chance there, as often the bug has been > already fixed in the upstream. I already tried that kernel (3.19), but OK. > - Enable kdump to get the crash vmcore and dmesg. Install > yast2-kdump, and enable kdump. It might be that yast2 kdump module > can't set the right kernel parameter. In that case, edit > /etc/default/grub manually and append a boot option like > "crashkernel=256M". Yast did everything automatically -- I have in total: showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe crashkernel=512M-:256M > After the crash, you'll get dmesg.txt in the crash dump directory > (if you're lucky). Well, it is not a crash, but we will see... I keep my fingers crossed ;-).