Activity log for bug #582264

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2010-05-18 14:16:07 Romano Giannetti bug added bug
2010-05-18 17:05:05 ooze affects ubuntu linux (Ubuntu)
2010-05-25 15:25:40 Jeremy Foshee tags needs-kernel-logs
2010-05-25 15:25:44 Jeremy Foshee tags needs-kernel-logs needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing
2010-05-25 15:25:47 Jeremy Foshee tags needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing
2010-05-25 15:25:53 Jeremy Foshee linux (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2010-06-08 11:06:51 Romano Giannetti tags kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing apport-collected kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing
2010-06-08 11:07:21 Romano Giannetti description Sometime, more or less every 3-4 minutes or when I start a new program, with a relatively light load (chromium browser, thunderbird, one VirtualBox session) the computers went into frenzy disk activity and grind to a practical halt for the next minute or so. Very unresponsive, triggers the "this page do not respond" warning from chrome or OOffice... then it resume. I tried to track the culprit without any luck. Reducing vm.swappiness from 60 to 10 did not help. Cumulative atop for disk usage says: NPROCS SYSCPU USRCPU VSIZE RSIZE RDDSK WRDSK RNET SNET MEM CMD 1/4 1 1.06s 0.08s 1.0G 836.0M 280 480 0 0 42% VirtualBox 8 0.07s 0.25s 1.2G 174.7M 232 0 0 0 9% chrome 1 0.03s 0.13s 246.6M 112.0M 0 0 0 0 6% Xorg 1 0.00s 0.02s 340.5M 74156K 15072 8 0 0 4% thunderbird-bi 1 0.00s 0.00s 93692K 9256K 0 0 0 0 0% nautilus 1 0.01s 0.01s 48844K 5616K 1184 24 0 0 0% gnome-terminal 1 0.00s 0.00s 41928K 5136K 0 0 0 0 0% wnck-applet and free: (0)pern:~% free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2027004 1977144 49860 0 1184 50012 -/+ buffers/cache: 1925948 101056 Swap: 3903752 342976 3560776 This is a Dell n-series, core2 cpu, 2G ram, running a 32 bit kernel, ATI card with fglrx module. Never happened such a thing with Karmic, same load (I know, virtualbox use half of the memory, but that was the same in Karmic, with no problem at all). The system is pretty unusable for work. Will try to reboot in an older kernel, using firefox, and downgrade virtualbox to try to find why, but if anyone has a suggestion, it's very welcome. Sometime, more or less every 3-4 minutes or when I start a new program, with a relatively light load (chromium browser, thunderbird, one VirtualBox session) the computers went into frenzy disk activity and grind to a practical halt for the next minute or so. Very unresponsive, triggers the "this page do not respond" warning from chrome or OOffice... then it resume. I tried to track the culprit without any luck. Reducing vm.swappiness from 60 to 10 did not help. Cumulative atop for disk usage says: NPROCS SYSCPU USRCPU VSIZE RSIZE RDDSK WRDSK RNET SNET MEM CMD 1/4 1 1.06s 0.08s 1.0G 836.0M 280 480 0 0 42% VirtualBox 8 0.07s 0.25s 1.2G 174.7M 232 0 0 0 9% chrome 1 0.03s 0.13s 246.6M 112.0M 0 0 0 0 6% Xorg 1 0.00s 0.02s 340.5M 74156K 15072 8 0 0 4% thunderbird-bi 1 0.00s 0.00s 93692K 9256K 0 0 0 0 0% nautilus 1 0.01s 0.01s 48844K 5616K 1184 24 0 0 0% gnome-terminal 1 0.00s 0.00s 41928K 5136K 0 0 0 0 0% wnck-applet and free: (0)pern:~% free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2027004 1977144 49860 0 1184 50012 -/+ buffers/cache: 1925948 101056 Swap: 3903752 342976 3560776 This is a Dell n-series, core2 cpu, 2G ram, running a 32 bit kernel, ATI card with fglrx module. Never happened such a thing with Karmic, same load (I know, virtualbox use half of the memory, but that was the same in Karmic, with no problem at all). The system is pretty unusable for work. Will try to reboot in an older kernel, using firefox, and downgrade virtualbox to try to find why, but if anyone has a suggestion, it's very welcome. --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: romano 1559 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfebdc000 irq 16' Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1984' Components : 'HDA:11d41984,10280211,00100400' Controls : 30 Simple ctrls : 18 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Frequency: Once a day. HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=75c5b06d-24c3-4a8e-a0f3-cf3b519c35ad IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. vboxnet0 no wireless extensions. MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 755 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: linux (not installed) ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=fe469c02-94bf-4a0f-a430-32767942a34d ro xforcevesa quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Regression: Yes RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34 Reproducible: No RfKill: Tags: lucid regression-release needs-upstream-testing Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686 UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare scanner tape vboxusers video WifiSyslog: Jun 8 10:24:26 pern kernel: [54110.681761] warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) WpaSupplicantLog: dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A11 dmi.board.name: 0DR845 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd08/04/2008:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex755:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0DR845:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 755 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
2010-06-08 11:07:24 Romano Giannetti attachment added AlsaDevices.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941319/AlsaDevices.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:27 Romano Giannetti attachment added AplayDevices.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941320/AplayDevices.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:29 Romano Giannetti attachment added BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941321/BootDmesg.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:33 Romano Giannetti attachment added Card0.Amixer.values.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941322/Card0.Amixer.values.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:36 Romano Giannetti attachment added Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941323/Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:38 Romano Giannetti attachment added CurrentDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941324/CurrentDmesg.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:41 Romano Giannetti attachment added Lspci.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941325/Lspci.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:44 Romano Giannetti attachment added Lsusb.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941326/Lsusb.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:47 Romano Giannetti attachment added PciMultimedia.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941327/PciMultimedia.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:50 Romano Giannetti attachment added ProcCpuinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941328/ProcCpuinfo.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:52 Romano Giannetti attachment added ProcInterrupts.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941331/ProcInterrupts.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:54 Romano Giannetti attachment added ProcModules.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941332/ProcModules.txt
2010-06-08 11:07:57 Romano Giannetti attachment added UdevDb.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941333/UdevDb.txt
2010-06-08 11:08:01 Romano Giannetti attachment added UdevLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941335/UdevLog.txt
2010-06-08 11:11:11 Romano Giannetti attachment added ps augx at the top of disk activity frenzy, more or less... http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49941459/ps_augx3.txt
2010-09-28 15:40:16 Jeremy Foshee tags apport-collected kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing apport-collected kj-expired kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing
2010-09-28 15:40:19 Jeremy Foshee linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Expired
2011-01-19 19:07:25 David Oftedal linux (Ubuntu): status Expired Incomplete
2011-04-21 05:07:39 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Expired
2011-06-27 13:02:21 David Oftedal linux (Ubuntu): status Expired Incomplete
2011-06-27 13:30:42 O. Emmerson removed subscriber O. Emmerson
2011-07-14 08:17:19 David Oftedal linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete New
2011-07-18 23:38:37 Brad Figg linux (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2012-04-04 10:54:57 penalvch tags apport-collected kj-expired kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing apport-collected kj-expired kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing regression-release
2012-04-04 10:56:39 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2012-06-04 04:17:46 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Expired