Re: freeze under heavy load

Aaron Birenboim([email protected])@Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:31:48AM -0600:
> I ran my script of "convert" commands some more.
> This is in a folder holding 12000 JPEG's, and
> using convert to add a little text "timestamp"
> to the frames.
> My script is just a list of 4500 convert commands.
> 
> I don't see the convert commands building up.
> Just one at a time running.
> I do worry that /proc/cpuinfo reports:
> 
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > cpu family      : 15
> > model           : 127
> > model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
> > stepping        : 1
> > cpu MHz         : 1000.000
> > cache size      : 512 KB
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 1
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic cr8_legacy misalignsse
> > bogomips        : 2047.09
> > TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
> > clflush size    : 64
> > cache_alignment : 64
> > address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> > power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps
> 
> when this is supposed to be a 2.2GHz CPU.
> 
> I set up an ext3 filesystem on a new disk, and got similar freezes.
> I then made an XFS filesystem on the new disk, same results.

Are you doing any sort of temperature monitoring?  I would guess that your
processor is overheating and down-clocking to save heat.

-- 
Bill Weiss
 
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen.
    -- Edward V. Berard

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