Temporary system freeze

I’m running an openSUSE 11.1 x64 and kde 4.2 from the openSUSE repos.

If working with it, it happens that the system freezes for 1-2 seconds. During that freeze, even the mouse cursor does not move. After the freeze, all mouse and keyboard actions (including clicks) that I did during the freeze are executed. Then I can continue using my system normally.

If I only write text (like now), I get very few (1 in 2 hours) such freezes. But if I use DosBox to play an old game (MOO2), it can happen about every 5 minutes. I’ve not notices a regular interval, so it may first freeze 2 times in 5 minutes and than 20 minutes later again.

I’ve search /var/log/messages but no lines are added during or near that freeze.

Any ideas where to look or how to solve that?

Don’t only look at /var/log/messages, also take a peek at dmesg when the freeze happens.

> Any ideas where to look or how to solve that?

turn off or uninstall beagle…


decorated_warrior

I’ve uninstalled beagle, but the freezes still happen.

I don’t understand how dmesg could help to solve the problem? According to its man page, dmesg print boot messages. Can you give me some details on that?

It collects I/O errors hotplugging etc … as well dmesg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You could also run a batch top and save it out and review it after a freeze.

As Feathermonkey posted, it also collects interrupt errors and/or other problems - it can help you debug the issue, for example if there is a device i/o error (reading problems or bugs in the firmware/drivers) and thus it ‘freezes’ the entire machine.