Debian freezing issue

[Kooldino]

On occasion, when using my new Debian box (recently installed w/ SARGE installer), I encounter a freeze. I'll be moving the mouse, and it will just freeze. 30 seconds or so go by, and then I can finally move it again. But what's making it freeze?

[leech]

Weird. What kind of mouse do you have? Is it under a lot of CPU usage, or utilizing the swap a lot? Give us some details of your setup, so we can diagnose it bettter. I've never had the issue, but I'm using a USB Microsoft IntelliExplorer mouse (I have the old kind with the bigger buttons on the side, I'd replace this mouse, but they don't make that style anymore! It's so old, that the Microsoft on it is worn off, and the silver paint on the part where my thumb rests is worn white!)

Leech

[Kooldino]

Nah, just when I'm doing simple tasks like surfing and chatting. I have a Logitech 2 button mouse with a scoll wheel. PS/2

It's on an Asus A7V with a Duron or so at 1100 or so. 256MB of RAM sounds about right.

GF3 Ti200

[Wombat]

Anything in 'dmesg'? Does 'top' show lots of activity? Is the HD light blinking a lot?

[Kooldino]

dmesg output normally:

Linux version 2.4.25-1-386 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)) #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffec000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffec000 - 000000000ffef000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffef000 - 000000000ffff000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 65516
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61420 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f6a90
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7V 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0ffec000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7V 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0ffec080
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7V 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0ffec040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7V 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1210.805 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2418.27 BogoMIPS
Memory: 253192k/262064k available (1076k kernel code, 8484k reserved, 465k data, 92k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1210.7670 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 201.7944 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2017944, slice: 1008972
CPU0<T0:2017936,T1:1008960,D:4,S:1008972,C:2017944 >
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1180, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:04.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:11.0
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <info@itc.hu>
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 3736 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 3736k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide: late registration of driver.
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
PDC20265: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.0
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhMA
hda: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue d0826460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hde: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: Disabling (U)DMA for PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide2 at 0x9800-0x9807,0x9402 on irq 10
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [3737/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 >
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Adding Swap: 497972k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
hde: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hde: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Enabling device 00:0a.0 (0004 -> 0007)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa400, 00:50:ba:ae:5e:4a, IRQ 5
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
es1371: version v0.32 time 20:24:27 Apr 14 2004
PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.0 (0004 -> 0005)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:11.0
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02
es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xa000 irq 10
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 20:27:23 Apr 14 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.3
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
hub.c: new USB device 00:04.3-2, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
NET4: Linux IPX 0.47 for NET4.0
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.
kooldino@linuxbox:~$

[Kooldino]

HD light is not hooked up during freezes, but I don't hear it then either. I kind of doesn't "feel" like a HD access though...it's more binary than that.

I'll keep a TOP window running in the BG from now on.