From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754175Ab2FLVOL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:14:11 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:56664 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422Ab2FLVOK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:14:10 -0400 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Keyboard/mouse freeze with high network usage (r8169/brcmsmac/broadcom-wl) From: Eric Dumazet To: Guillaume Bouchard Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:14:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1339535645.22704.293.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 22:09 +0200, Guillaume Bouchard wrote: > Dear kernel hackers, > > The builtin keyboard and mouse of my laptop randomly freeze during usage. > > It can happen on console or under X (for the mouse I'm not sure it > freezes on console because I have no console mouse installed). But > other parts of the computer are still perfectly alive (ie, > applications continue to work, movie to play, computer can be reach by > SSH). If your script can trigger the freeze in less than 5 minutes, you could start a background job to check /proc/meminfo, it sounds there is a mem leak ? while : do date cat /proc/meminfo cat /proc/slabinfo sleep 10 done