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High CPU usages and sometimes hard crashes in my Debian/Linux.
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:33:59 -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:
Hello, The last few weeks, I noticed my old Linux/Debian box (2.6.30-2) keeps getting random and rare high CPU due to Xorg and sometimes crashes. My box, even via SSH2, felt slow. I checked the processes and saw: $ w 11:53:37 up 6 days, 4:19, 3 users, load average: 6.26, 6.04, 6.19 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT ant tty1 Wed03 5days 9.79s 0.00s /bin/bash /usr/bin/start ant pts/3 [deleted IP addy]10:37 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s w ant pts/4 foobar:S.0 05Jan10 10:30 16.00s 16.00s BitchX Ant... $ top top - 11:55:08 up 6 days, 4:20, 3 users, load average: 6.13, 5.91, 6.12 Tasks: 132 total, 3 running, 129 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 6.9%us, 2.4%sy, 1.3%ni, 88.1%id, 0.6%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2594748k total, 2168336k used, 426412k free, 64348k buffers Swap: 2361512k total, 6452k used, 2355060k free, 1847020k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 15529 root 20 0 101m 73m 2992 R 99.7 2.9 225:08.76 Xorg 20840 ant 20 0 2468 1180 892 R 0.2 0.0 0:00.01 top 1 root 20 0 2036 348 324 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.62 init ... I tried to kill startx and Xorg processes, and my box froze (still pingable, remote SSH2 connection frozen but not connectable, and IRC connections lost). I have tried recompling the latest stable NVIDIA (from nvidia.com) driver for GeForce FX 5200 (AGP), redoing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf with NVIDIA's script help, disabling Compiz, etc. I checked logs. In /var/log/X11, I saw a bunch of: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed. (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART. This sounds bad? What does that mean? End of dmesg showed these lines: ... [72619.360521] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.22 Sun Nov 8 20:26:31 PST 2009 ... [72833.815914] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.22 Sun Nov 8 20:26:31 PST 2009 [72833.947202] agpgart-amd64 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.5 bridge [72833.947218] agpgart-amd64 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode [72833.947284] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode ... [99432.775115] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0002 06bc 3f800000 0008fd14 00000000 3f800000 [99469.794940] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0002 06bc 3f800000 0008fd14 00000000 3f800000 [99469.836150] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 7, Ch 00000002 M 00000a64 D 00000000 intr 00010000 [224756.205022] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0002 06bc 3f800000 0008fd14 00000000 3f800000 [224756.251066] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 7, Ch 00000002 M 0000069c D 471229dd intr 00010000 [225085.201829] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0002 0000 40000000 0010a7bc c0000000 3f800000 [225085.246217] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 7, Ch 00000002 M 00001d7c D ffff0000 intr 00010000 ... [526347.572029] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 00000000 I posted more complete and other logs at, including sensors -f: http://pastie.org/774029 ... My old Debian machine specifications can be found in http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt (Secondary/Backup Computer section). Any ideas? I do keep my Debian updated daily with apt-get update and upgrade commands. I do not recall any recent X changes. Thank you in advance. You might have a CPU cooling problem. Here is a link to sys_basher, make sure you have lm_sensors and the lm_sensors development package installed before you build it. sys_basher will stress your CPU and RAM, if the system crashes you'll have an answer. It will also record the CPU and motherboard temperatures between each test which will give you an idea about how hot things are getting before the crash happens. http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/ |
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High CPU usages and sometimes hard crashes in my Debian/Linux.
On 1/19/2010 7:02 AM PT, General Schvantzkoph typed:
You might have a CPU cooling problem. Here is a link to sys_basher, make sure you have lm_sensors and the lm_sensors development package installed before you build it. sys_basher will stress your CPU and RAM, if the system crashes you'll have an answer. It will also record the CPU and motherboard temperatures between each test which will give you an idea about how hot things are getting before the crash happens. http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/ Ooh, nice tool! I downloaded, compiled, and ran it for over 30 minutes. So far no crashes, no errors, etc. I will keep it running until I need to go AFK (have to abort). How long are the tests supposed to run? I didn't see it mentioned in its README. -- "Where the sugar is, there will the ant be also." --Philippines /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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High CPU usages and sometimes hard crashes in my Debian/Linux.
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
You might have a CPU cooling problem. Here is a link to sys_basher, make sure you have lm_sensors and the lm_sensors development package installed before you build it. sys_basher will stress your CPU and RAM, if the system crashes you'll have an answer. It will also record the CPU and motherboard temperatures between each test which will give you an idea about how hot things are getting before the crash happens. http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/ Every problem I have had hardware wise the last three years has been solved by taking te machine apart and blowing the crap out of it. 2 dogs, 2 smokers and 4 cats play hell with fans and filters. |
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High CPU usages and sometimes hard crashes in my Debian/Linux.
Those temps don't look terrible, try running sys_basher for an hour. Use
the -ho switch sys_basher -ho 1 Well, my first test ran for an hour. Also, I have seen the crashes happen during nice temperatures (look at previous posts). I don't think it is a heat problem. -- "We are anthill men upon an anthill world." --Ray Bradbury /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Please remove ANT if replying by e-mail. ( ) |
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High CPU usages and sometimes hard crashes in my Debian/Linux.
Every problem I have had hardware wise the last three years has been
solved by taking te machine apart and blowing the crap out of it. I just did that a few weeks ago too. I will try again later. -- "We are anthill men upon an anthill world." --Ray Bradbury /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Please remove ANT if replying by e-mail. ( ) |
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