Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing

From: Sami Farin
Date: Sun Jan 01 2006 - 10:13:10 EST


On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:06:06PM +0100, Mark v Wolher wrote:
...
> 5 hours passed with this load and no single crash/freeze/lockup happened
> ! Normally with all this load sooner or later something would have
> happened.
>
> What did i do ?
>
> I disabled bttv support in the kernel, so no tv for me at this moment.

I noticed this very same thing 1,5 years ago.

As a matter of fact, I haven't used bttv during the last ~two months
(except the "test" yesterday), and I haven't gotten crashes when
not using bttv.

> I'm planning to let this run for at least another 5 hours with heavy
> load and see if still nothing happens...
>
> Keeping you informed.
>
> Mark

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