linux-kernel - Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <610674.43534.qm@web46002.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:22:30 -0300 (ART)
From:	Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@...oo.com.br>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24


--- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@...oo.com.br> escreveu:

> --- Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> escreveu:
> 
> > Luis Sousa wrote:
> > > I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> > > long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> > > move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> > > that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> > > they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> > > to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> > > like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.
> > 
> > We need more info, namely full 'dmesg', 'lspci -v', and your kernel config.
> > 
> > Also, make /sure/ you are not running closed-source modules known to 
> > crash the system, like ndiswrapper or nvidia graphics driver.
> > 
> > 	Jeff
> 
> I'm quite sure.

Oops. My bad. I seem to actually be running the "nv" driver in xorg.conf. 
I had searched for "nvidia" before and so thought I had cleared that.
I didn't recall manually installing it this time. I'll try not using it.

--
Luis


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