short freeze's on machine's with Nvidia-Card & Nvidia-Driver

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#1

I hope this is the failure:
The freeze’s on my machine only appears when i monitor the temperature of
the gpu. Normally i use gkrellm to monitor temperatures including the gpu temperature.
When i stop gkrellm there a no more freeze’s on my system.
Then i started nvdock which also monitor the gpu temperature and the freeze’s
are back. Stopping nvdock make the system working normally.
I have done a few reboots now, warm and also cold starts und everything works normal.

I hope this is useful. Confirmation is welcome.

Cu
Hans

System data: AMD P2 X4 940, Nvidia GTS 250, openSUSE 11.3, Nvidiadriver 256.44,
Gigabyte Mainboard GA-MA78G-DS3H rev.2,8GB RAM, KDE 4.4.95,

#2

Hello kaiserhg

The nail on the head. :wink:
I to had freeze’s every 4 or 10 seconds normal work was not possible

I use Gkrellm with temp from the gpu.

Seeing you post i removed it and i had a normal running system.
To make it stick this way remove nvidia-settings.desktop from your home/username/ .config/autostart

#3

I have the same problem.
The presented idea works fine. Probably when nVidia occupies the interrupt, gkrellm during access freezes the system.

Before I disable nVidia dock I would like to make sure that is safe…

Is ndock responsible for any power managment of nVidia cards? Before I installed nVidia drivers I almost fried my GPU (using defauls SUSE driver after DVD install), so next time I must be careful.

#4

I’m having these freezes and I’m not running any temperature monitoring applications, Suse 11.3 KDE 64bit, nvidia 256.35.

#5

In my case it is directly connected with gkrellm. If I De-select monitoring GPU then no freezes, otherwise lags.

However I did not stop nVidia dock. I just disabled in nVidia monitoring of GPU and it did help … for 2 weeks :?

Was fine and now freezes came back! I checked nVidia dock, still de-selected.

I have SUSE 11.3 x64 as in the footnote.

#6

Maybe it is this bug:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625339#add_comment

#7

Ha-ha-ha, removing GPU temperature from Gkrellm does the trick!!! :))) LOL