Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE desktop system periodically freezes momentarily

Toomas Aas wrote:
Wayne Sierke wrote:

FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #5: Sat Dec 29 19:25:43 CST 2007 i386

I've noticed that this system is freezing periodically, for anywhere
from around a fraction of a second up to perhaps 1.5 seconds, and
occurring on average about twice a minute, but with no particular
pattern - i.e. it could happen twice in fairly quick succession, or not
for 40-50 seconds.

I'm very surprised to find out that maybe I'm not alone in the universe. I have a 6.3-PRERELEASE system (last cvsupped Dec 12), which always freezes *once* a few minutes after booting up. This happens typically at the time when I've just logged in using xdm, fluxbox has started up and I'm opening my first xterm. The freeze lasts approximately 1-3 seconds. Once this freeze is over, it doesn't happen again until I shut down the machine for the night. But it does happen every time after starting up.

This is usually when your system accesses swap because you ran out of free RAM.

Kris
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