p2p/torrent hangs suse 10/10.1

[itchy8me]

hello

Has anyone else had problems with running download programs(azureus,amule,etc) in suse 10/10.1.

my problem is that my computer keeps freezing.. totally i have to do a hard boot everytime as i get no response from anything. It always happens when a torrent program or a p2p program is open.. it happens at varied intervals. i've tried changing the program.. for example using ktorrent or bittorent instead of azureus. All ports that need to be open are open. My system should beable to handle these progies: 3.0Ghz intel, 1GB mem, 500 swap, huge harddrives: 180GB 80GB and wireless connection to a fast router.

anyone had the same problems? im confused and frustrated, help me.

wernher

[bigtomrodney]

Have you checked you logs around the time of the crash? Have a look in /var/logs. There are many things that could have happened - it may be only your desktop environment that has frozen.

[itchy8me]

hey thanx for the reply

well it is definitely more than just the desktop. everything dies.. no more harddisk activity, also the network totally dies, as a computer that is masqueraded on my linux pc has no more internet or network connection after the freeze.

Also thats just the problem.. there are so many things that could have happened, only i have no idea what i am looking for

[itchy8me]

okay

ive noticed that thesystem freeze seems to happen when i am not interacting with the computer much. When i am using alot of apllications and multitasking through many apllications, the system doesnt seem to freeze.. weird

however the system never freezes when azureus is not running except sometimes after i have done a hard boot(after azureus has frozen the system), then i get the logon screen and it screeches to a complete halt.

[itchy8me]

i forgot to mention that i sometimes get a garbelled screen output when the system freezes, also i am running my usb wireless adapter with ndiswrapper 1.23.. been down he whole line since 1.19.

i've watched the memmory usage until system freeze.. nothing special
say 30% applications
90% disk cache
10% free
swap isnt used

[vmeli]

If you have not updated kdebase3 files suse 10 would hang if you have more than 8 connections at the same time (and torrents usually have more than that). I hope that this is your problem.

[itchy8me]

yup i had updated it a while ago.. its possible that that effected it in the beggining. i believe i now know what the problem is.. only i have no idea how to fix it.

i am on a wireless network my wireless card is interfaced by ndiswrapper.
for the last 24 hours i've been using another base station that has a stronger signal, it appears that wenever i had fluctutaions in the signal.. that is when the signal was week, the system would freeze, why i dont know.. i cannot find any information anywhere telling me what happened.. the only thing.. the network fell out. it would explain why the computer would sometimes freeze after a hard boot, because the network signal was perhaps still fluctuating.

anyone know any fixes? any ideas..

[itchy8me]

my goodness.. more than 24 hours and then boing.. it freezes not once twice but three times in a row.. there were no fluctuations in the network connection, i was wrong, again.

im going for memory problems, i have removed one of my 512MB chips if it freezes again i'll swap em, i am hoping its this, as its becoming freeking frustrating and im willing to have it be a memory chip and have it solved than carry on living with it.

[itchy8me]

i tested the memory by exclusion and had the same problems!
i thought it might have something to do with my swap file not being used, raised the swappiness in /proc/sys/vm and increased and decreased the vfs_cache_pressure. didnt work.

now i think it might be the iptables..
here's the last part of /var/logs/warn after a series of chained crashes:

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Aug 24 23:19:35 blue syslog-ng[4702]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/xconsole
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue syslog-ng[4702]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/tty10
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: Warning: Could not set up default route via interface
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: Command ip route replace to default via 192.168.1.1 returned:
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: . RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: Configuration line: default 192.168.1.1 - -
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: This needs NOT to be AN ERROR if you set up multiple interfaces.
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: See man 5 routes how to avoid this warning.
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: Error while executing:
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: Command 'ip route replace to 192.168.2.1/24 via 192.168.1.1' returned:
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup-route: Configuration line: 192.168.2.1 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue mDNSResponder (Engineering Build) (Sep 9 2005 15:59:0 [5216]: starting
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue mDNSResponder: Unable to parse DNS server list. Unicast DNS-SD unavailable
Aug 24 23:19:35 blue ifup: No configuration found for sit0
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: [2006/08/24 23:19:38, 0] nmbd/nmbd_logonnames.c:add_logon_names(163)
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: add_domain_logon_names:
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: Attempting to become logon server for workgroup FIRE on subnet 192.168.2.1
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: [2006/08/24 23:19:38, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bca st(282)
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: become_domain_master_browser_bcast:
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup FIRE on subnet 192.168.2.1
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: [2006/08/24 23:19:38, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bca st(295)
Aug 24 23:19:38 blue nmbd[5509]: become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.2.1 for domain master browser on workgroup FIRE
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue smbd[5808]: [2006/08/24 23:19:39, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85)
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue smbd[5808]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue smbd[5808]: [2006/08/24 23:19:39, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85)
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue smbd[5808]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled.
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8189 buckets, 65512 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: usb 1-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: hw_random: RNG not detected
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2027: AC'97 0 analog subsections not ready
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: NFSD: recovery directory /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery doesn't exist
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue xinetd[5941]: Service fam: attribute already set: type [file=/etc/xinetd.d/fam] [line=14]
Aug 24 23:19:39 blue xinetd[5941]: Service fam: attribute already set: type [file=/etc/xinetd.d/fam] [line=15]
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (CPUFreq_Userspace:42) Could not set userspace governor, seems as if the cpufreq_userspace module is not loaded.
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (read_line:43) Could not open file for reading: '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies'
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (read_line:43) Could not open file for reading: '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq'
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (read_value:82) Could not read value in file /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq: error: No such file or directory!
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (read_line:43) Could not open file for reading: '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq'
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (read_value:82) Could not read value in file /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: error: No such file or directory!
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: WARNING (getMinMaxSpeeds:349) Speedstepping not supported! Was the correct cpufreq module loaded?
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: WARNING (initFreqsViaTesting:377) Could not read min and max speed
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue [powersave]: ERROR (PM_Interface:231) Cannot create cpufreq objects
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue xinetd[5941]: Service fam missing attribute user - DISABLING
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue xinetd[5941]: No such internal service: servers/stream - DISABLING
Aug 24 23:19:40 blue xinetd[5941]: No such internal service: services/stream - DISABLING
Aug 24 23:19:42 blue kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 24 23:19:42 blue kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 24 23:19:42 blue kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 24 23:19:42 blue submountd: mount failure, No such device or address
Aug 24 23:19:42 blue kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 24 23:19:42 blue kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256)
Aug 24 23:19:43 blue kernel: nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
Aug 24 23:19:43 blue nmbd[5509]: [2006/08/24 23:19:43, 0] nmbd/nmbd_logonnames.c:become_logon_server_success(124)
Aug 24 23:19:43 blue nmbd[5509]: become_logon_server_success: Samba is now a logon server for workgroup FIRE on subnet 192.168.2.1
Aug 24 23:19:43 blue kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006
Aug 24 23:19:46 blue SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled.
Aug 24 23:19:46 blue udevd[2330]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Aug 24 23:19:46 blue kdm: :0[5754]: pam_ldap: ldap_starttls_s: Can't contact LDAP server
Aug 24 23:19:47 blue SuSEfirewall2: Error: iptables-batch failed, re-running using iptables
Aug 24 23:19:48 blue nmbd[5509]: [2006/08/24 23:19:48, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage2(113)
Aug 24 23:19:48 blue nmbd[5509]: *****
Aug 24 23:19:48 blue nmbd[5509]:
Aug 24 23:19:48 blue nmbd[5509]: Samba server BLUE is now a domain master browser for workgroup FIRE on subnet 192.168.2.1
Aug 24 23:19:48 blue nmbd[5509]:
Aug 24 23:19:48 blue nmbd[5509]: *****
Aug 24 23:19:49 blue udevd[2330]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Aug 24 23:20:00 blue nmbd[5509]: [2006/08/24 23:20:00, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
Aug 24 23:20:00 blue nmbd[5509]: *****
Aug 24 23:20:00 blue nmbd[5509]:
Aug 24 23:20:00 blue nmbd[5509]: Samba name server BLUE is now a local master browser for workgroup FIRE on subnet 192.168.2.1
Aug 24 23:20:00 blue nmbd[5509]:
Aug 24 23:20:00 blue nmbd[5509]: *****

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i had a series (like 5 times after each other) of crashes one after the other, every time having to hard boot, and everytime, a little after azureus started up (it is in the boot autostart directory), it froze. the last time, i closed azureus the moment it started, and stopped the firewall (although, i need it for masquerading) and restarted azureus, now it hasn't crashed for a while. Allthough that says nothing, im allready anticipating the next crash

[itchy8me]

left it on through the night with the firewall disabled.. still hasn't frozen.