[CentOS 6.2 - centosplus] Freeze (memory or kernel panic?)
Posted: 2012/06/30 18:09:31
Hey guys, I would like to congratulate for your work in the first place. I have just moved from Fedora 14 (as it wasn't maintained any more for some time already because of their 4 versions policy) which was the last release with this [i]clean[/i] (so to speak) GUI and I've said to myself to try CentOS (I don't really want to give away SELinux for now).
As on Fedora 14 I encountered problems and various bugs with applications, for example in Skype at log-in RAM would get full and only SWAP would help me, but on CentOS 6.2 (centosplus) this isn't the case. Like in the Fedora 14 I have System Monitor in my Panel, I could see there my RAM sky rocketing and swap kicking in, but this isn't the case with CentOS, it basically freeze and there is not a sign which shows where the problem comes (either CPU or Memory or a kernel panic of some sort).
Any ideas how could I debug my kernel and see some information related to the last actions that could be responsible for this? Also the freezes are random, this moment I browse the web and maybe rewind a YouTube clip and freezes or I just open a new tab in Firefox and it suddenly freezes (also had a scenario with VLC when I tried to pause a video).
No audio can be heard or any activity from the devices such as keyboard, mouse.
I have read a similar problem related to this: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-August/116582.html
My system information that could help you:
[b]cat /etc/*release*[/b] and [b]uname -a[/b]:
[code]
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
cat: /etc/lsb-release.d: Is a directory
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
cpe:/o:centos:linux:6:GA
Linux Chaos.Virtue 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.centos.plus.i686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 19 03:00:23 BST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[/code]
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (with latest nvidia drivers installed)
Processor:
[quote]
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv
[/quote]
Would you like more information? dmesg/grub.conf/??
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Later edit:
Well I know I have installed an i686 CentOS when I have a 64 AMD processor, but isn't there any other workarounds if this is the problem (which I do not think so, but who knows)?
As on Fedora 14 I encountered problems and various bugs with applications, for example in Skype at log-in RAM would get full and only SWAP would help me, but on CentOS 6.2 (centosplus) this isn't the case. Like in the Fedora 14 I have System Monitor in my Panel, I could see there my RAM sky rocketing and swap kicking in, but this isn't the case with CentOS, it basically freeze and there is not a sign which shows where the problem comes (either CPU or Memory or a kernel panic of some sort).
Any ideas how could I debug my kernel and see some information related to the last actions that could be responsible for this? Also the freezes are random, this moment I browse the web and maybe rewind a YouTube clip and freezes or I just open a new tab in Firefox and it suddenly freezes (also had a scenario with VLC when I tried to pause a video).
No audio can be heard or any activity from the devices such as keyboard, mouse.
I have read a similar problem related to this: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-August/116582.html
My system information that could help you:
[b]cat /etc/*release*[/b] and [b]uname -a[/b]:
[code]
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
cat: /etc/lsb-release.d: Is a directory
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
cpe:/o:centos:linux:6:GA
Linux Chaos.Virtue 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.centos.plus.i686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 19 03:00:23 BST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[/code]
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (with latest nvidia drivers installed)
Processor:
[quote]
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv
[/quote]
Would you like more information? dmesg/grub.conf/??
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Later edit:
Well I know I have installed an i686 CentOS when I have a 64 AMD processor, but isn't there any other workarounds if this is the problem (which I do not think so, but who knows)?