On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:03, Faraz Shahbazker wrote:
I meant that for debugging purposes - not as a permanent solution.
Well, I didn't need to do that at all. The system locked up again. After about 6-8 hours of operation. I had left the CPU case open just to ensure that its getting sufficiently cooled but it locked up. So I dont think the new drive has anything to do with this odd behavior as it was
AFAIK, cpuspeed for desktop processors is a farce. The core internally runs at the same speed, but only does work in a fraction of the cycles and no-ops the others. This translates to no power-saving and no cooling effect - just looks cool :-). It is only meaningful for Mobile processors where the clock frequency and voltage are actually scaled down in hardware.
No...my P4's CPU frequency is definitely scaled down. I can feel the difference between the frequencies as when it gets upto 2.8GHz, it generates huge quantities of heat :P
Anyway, back on topic...I booted into a different kernel ( though its still a 2.6.x ) kernel to see what happens. Do you think this could be a harddisk issue? I definitely think this is a low level failure...