system hangs for 1-3 seconds

t0bias · 03-03-2009, 02:48 PM

Hi,

my machine hangs like every 3-5 seconds for 1-3 seconds and
then resumes for another 3-5 seconds and so on.
how can I find out, why that is?
top does not show any unusual process running, load average is
below 1.00 and swap-memory is untouched, ram is not fully used.

any ideas?

thanks,

Toby

SlowCoder · 03-03-2009, 03:17 PM

Have you tried disabling different services to see if one of them is not playing nice?

t0bias · 03-06-2009, 09:40 AM

Yes, that didn't really help.
Could it be a heat-issue? Notebook overheated?

Thanks

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-06-2009, 10:03 AM

How recently has this started happening ? Has it always happened ? Did you do something before it started happening ?

t0bias · 03-06-2009, 10:09 AM

It started after the computer had run for about 2 days, but it starts again even if I reboot the machine.
I didn't do anything in special, it suddenly occurred when I came back to the computer from dinner...

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-06-2009, 10:53 AM

Try running 'top' and see if any processes are acting strangely.

Also, what brand hard drive do you have ?

t0bias · 03-07-2009, 09:13 AM

There is no job acting strangely in "top"..

It's a Transcend SSD 32GB hard drive.

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-07-2009, 09:30 AM

So it's a SSD, well how old is it ? Have you tried other distros, and if so did it do the same thing ?

t0bias · 03-07-2009, 09:38 AM

No, I haven't tried any other distros, but the disc is fairly new, about a month or so..