Hickups of w2100z with SUSE 10.1 (freezes for an instance every 3 seconds)
Workstation
SUN w2100z
2 AMD64 Opteron
4G RAM
NVIDIA FX3000
SCSI 73GB
Operating System
--
SUSE 10.1 - Remastered x86_64
(uname -a output below)
Linux sun 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Problem
-
Every 3 seconds LINUX freezes for an instance - Appears as if computer has hickups.
Linux freezes for an instance every 3 seconds. This is accompanied by a concurrent flashing of the Hard Disk Access LED which means that something is accessing the disk every 5 seconds and is issuing an interrupt to the entire system. This does NOT happen before the kernel is loaded. At the boot loader menu screen the computer experiences NO such interrupts. Once kernel is loaded, then the problem starts and is present even before logging in to KDE session.
This happens with this version of Linux, which I must use for compatibiity reasons with my colleagues at work. I have also installed before a 32-bit version and it did not have this problem.
I have used top to try to identify any programs that are active with the same frequency as the phenomenon. Unfortunately no obvious catch. The program that appears to be more active relative to all the others is kacpid daemon. I have googled on it and I tried to disable it with adding the "noacpi" option in the default kernel line at /boot/grub/menu.lst file. This did not work as kacpid still poped up in the system after reboot. I am not even sure this is causing the problem though.
Anyone has ever come across something like that? Any ideas?
Thanx
