Bugzilla – Bug 104404
hald freezes machine regularly and constantly increases load
Last modified: 2007-06-05 11:04:17 UTC
When booting my computer and logging in everything seems fine. Over time, though, the computer becomes unresponsive for short, but increasing times (up till 10 seconds) at regular intervals (every 30 seconds or so). At the same time, the load of the (basically unloaded) machine increases. After 4 hrs the load average is around 20, and the computer is practically unusable due to the freezes. Stopping hald brings the load level back to a more reasonable 0.2, and the freezes are gone. The computer is a laptop, no floppy drive, and this problem occurs with and without an irrelevant CD in the CD drive. This is apparently not a general problem or I wouldn't be the first one to report this, but if it occurs it is surely at least "major", as it renders the computer all but useless in a rather short time frame. Reliably. Reproduceably.
Kernel or not Kernel?
Can you test this command (as root) and report the output please: for i in `find /proc/acpi/battery/*/ -type f`; do echo $i; time cat $i;done
and please also attach the output of 'lshal'
Created attachment 45934 [details] battery info This is he output from for i in `find /proc/acpi/battery/*/ -type f`; do echo $i; time cat $i;done
Created attachment 45935 [details] lshal output Output from 'lshal'.
Werner: Yes, the system is running *with* a kernel. ;-) I created both attachments. By the way, I jut discovered the system has a floppy drive after all. It is just located on the other side than is the case for my usual laptop, so I simply didn't see it...
EC burst mode (enabled now by default) and recent ACPI_DEBUG mem tracking patch from okir should solve this. Better try kotd: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/kotd/i386/HEAD/kernel-default.i586.rpm This one should solve your problems. Please reopen if not.