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I am running Arch Linux on an HP Mini 1000 with a SSD. The machine is a little under a year old and fairly heavily used.
About a month ago the machine started freezing up. During the freezes, the system is almost completely unresponsive, seemingly especially for disk-intensive tasks such as launching an application for the first time since reboot. The disk activity led is always constantly illuminated during the freezes. After somewhere between 30 sec and 3 minutes, the machine returns to normal operation.
I am pretty sure that the SSD is the source or the problem. Iotop reports a disk transfer rate of 0 during the freezes, so I think it must be getting "stuck" and simply not performing any r/w during the time.
I can't seem to find any information on these symptoms on the Internet, so any input on exactly what might be the cause of this would be greatly appreciated. The machine is under warranty, but I would rather not deal with HP until I actually know what is going on.
Thanks.
Please see my answer here: http://superuser.com/a/925725/176001 . This is typically the problem and the solution :)
– Ninj – 2015-06-09T15:08:20.963What does
dmesg
say? – Bobby – 2010-06-01T13:36:25.513You use an OS which uses it as a HDD. What is the question? :) You have to pay the price for such things. (If really the SSD is the problem.) – Apache – 2010-06-01T13:39:12.310
Which SSD is it? Many of the early drives were notorious for freezing and stuttering. I've also experienced a problem with freezing on my Intel X25-M G2.
– sblair – 2010-06-01T20:25:47.967I cannot seem to find the make/model on the drive (cracking it open is not a feasible option-- no easy access). This is making checking for firmware updates/images from the vendor impossible, though I did check HP's website and they list no relevant updates for my machine. Googling reveals that at least some HP Mini 1000s shipped with San Disk drives, but San Disk's site says that firmware updates should be aquired through the OEM.
The output of dmesg is the following: http://pastebin.org/299687 Afaik it has nothing useful in it.