On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:52:24 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:43:37 -0500 (EST)
> "Carl Gehr" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:30:12 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Carl's post is interesting. Do you have the screensaver enabled, by
>>>chance? When idle, do you have Firefox and/or SeaMonkey loaded? (I
>>>would
>>>see the latter as more related to the GenMAC/power management issue;
>>>i.e., the NIC throttles down, and upon waking up, causes the trap.
>>>Scott
>>>told me once (2002?) that trap 8's are almost always hardware related
>>>(interrupts), so I'm thinking of what might leave an interrupt hot...
>>
>> Maybe not so interesting... [I have no clue!]
>>
>> BUT, when my system is sitting [supposedly idle], I guess it really
>>is
>> not! Why? Because I have PMMail set to retrieve mail automatically
>>on
>> SIX different E-Mail accounts. Since they typically were not first
>> primed at the same time, all six do not really hit at the same time.
>> OTOH, 'idle' would, I guess, not really be a completely valid
>> statement. Thus the NIC might not actually 'throttle down' if it
>>takes
>> a period of no activity longer than four minutes to trigger it.
>>
>> Just thought I'd better mention this so no one goes off on a wild
>>goose
>> chase.
>>
>Carl, do you have any power management configured in the BIOS?
Uhh... I think so... ;-(
I've not changed any of that since I got the system two years ago. I
think it's generally the default stuff to run flat out when plugged in
and battery saving when unplugged.
I'm sorta i the middle of something right now that I'd prefer to not
interrupt. I'll try to check out what I have set later. OTOH, again,
since it's not changed, but the behavior has, I'd have to wonder if the
problem is rooted there.
I guess I should mention that I'm using the ACPI from 2008-04-23
(3.09). I've been a bit hesitant [aside from no time to install/test
anything] to tinker with success. I can move the system into/out of
the Docking Station without rebooting. The Wireless LAN is working
fine [except for the 'blinking' icon that I've mentioned in past
posts.]
This new behavior just 'started' with no warning...
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