Description of problem: After my computer was idle for awhile, the computer kept on printing a consistant error to the screen. This error would cause some loss of function, reduce responsiveness to a level that would lead to think the computer crashed. After a long wait, computer would respond and sometimes become fairly quick (normal speed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.332 How reproducible: Let the computer run for awhile. Try to download the test 3 isos. Let the computer go into screensavers and have no active user intervention. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Allow computer to do tasks (download isos using gftp) 2. Let computer run and go into screensavers 3. Come back later and check how far the download has gone Actual results: Tasks were slow in responding. It took close to a minute for any user intervention to be seen. Expected results: Business as usual, all systems go. Additional info: This error mentioned the kernel. I could not see a bug that mentioned closely what I was experiencing. I saved the dmesg output and will attach it to this report.
Created attachment 99729 [details] Very slow response, errors to screen, dmesg output I hope this helps narrow down the problem. The computer is working fine now and I did not reboot or kill applications. mc crashed a few times and would not transfer files. I ran the sync command to flush disks. I think that it flushes output.
Created attachment 99730 [details] additional mozilla and printk related errors in dmesg The prior errors were consistent. The attatched errors varied, so I attatche the addional errors to the report.
Created attachment 99732 [details] X paging error dmesg I still have the computer up and downloading the ISOs for test3. The computer is working alright with uptime results below. 07:35:03 up 14:09, 5 users, load average: 0.42, 0.58, 0.43 I did not see any problems this morning. Is this problem what some think is "kernel stalling?" or are there hardware issuse on my end? Or memory leaks?
I'm closing the bug. I am still using this kernel, but noted that an older kernel version resides currently in development. The resolution picked was rawhide, since the kernel was reverted there. I have not had a recurring problme. When I checked dmesg however, I was puzzled by no high memory, all low memory. 0MB HIGHMEM available. 510MB LOWMEM available. zapping low mappings.