"Steven M. Klass" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Ok, I tried out xfs, and I think it's the culprit of my woes.. Every once in
> a while (normally when I am typing a very long email - ironically but not
> always..) I hear my hardrive sync and then everything freezes. I have to
> hard reboot the machine to get it back to life.
[snip]
I had the same symptoms - sync and all. I thought it was ReiserFS, and
went through the pain to migrate it to ext3. Same problem persisted, I
changed the CPU fan (BIG MONSTER cooler for my CPU, and started
monitoring CPU temp using the sensors package, and haven't had a problem
since.
My "once in a while" was 3-6 days.
I would go the sensors route before migrating a filesystem.
George
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