why reboots my system spontaneous?
On my Pentium II running SuSe 8.0 I have a problem. I am using KDE and have not made many changes to my setup since installation. Whenever I use find, whether in KDe or in console, as find or in such things as in midnight commander, my system will or freeze or does a spontaneous reboot. And not working all the time in Linux, I find that after a reboot there is sometimes a hefty activity which includes the use of find. I used top to find that out. On Gkrellm I see a 100% use of my cpu some disc activity followed by the symptoms described above. Find seems to be activated by root and I could only come up with a cron job. But crontab -l informed me that there where no cron jobs for me and or root. I have now two things to solve. 1. get rid of the find activity in KDE and secondly 2. to get rid of the reboot or freeze symptom. Anybody ideas how to tackle the problems? -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.
On 12/04/2002 10:19 PM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Gkrellm I see a 100% use of my cpu some disc activity followed by the symptoms described above. Find seems to be activated by root and I could only come up with a cron job. But crontab -l informed me that there where no cron jobs for me and or root.
I have now two things to solve. 1. get rid of the find activity in KDE and secondly 2. to get rid of the reboot or freeze symptom.
Anybody ideas how to tackle the problems?
How are your CPU fans? I would suspect overheating, usually seen with a CPU intensive app running, or possibly Power Supply, as the CPU would draw more current as its temp goes up, coupled with the HD drain on the PS, especially if it is a bit underpowered. But it does sound like hardware to me. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
El mié, 04-12-2002 a las 11:19, Constant Brouerius van Nidek escribió:
On my Pentium II running SuSe 8.0 I have a problem. I am using KDE and have not made many changes to my setup since installation. Whenever I use find, whether in KDe or in console, as find or in such things as in midnight commander, my system will or freeze or does a spontaneous reboot. And not working all the time in Linux, I find that after a reboot there is sometimes a hefty activity which includes the use of find. I used top to find that out. On Gkrellm I see a 100% use of my cpu some disc activity followed by the symptoms described above. Find seems to be activated by root and I could only come up with a cron job. But crontab -l informed me that there where no cron jobs for me and or root. I have now two things to solve. 1. get rid of the find activity in KDE and secondly 2. to get rid of the reboot or freeze symptom. Anybody ideas how to tackle the problems?
some weeks ago happened the same to me. My cpu fan was jammed, the high activity raised the temperature and machine frozes. Solution; fix the cpu fan :) About find, check /etc/cron.daily, if you have updatedb/locate installed it will run the find to build a database with all your files, but if you disable the cron task, well, locate will not get updated results. Saludos Gustavo
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