X60s freezes for 10s every few hours

[ahrkron]

Hello,

I have an X60s running linux under VMWare. It works extremely well, but every day (and maybe twce a day), without apparent reason, it freezes completely (no mouse or keyboard response) and then comes back to normal after maybe 10 or 15 seconds. I do not know if this has anything to do with th virtua machine, since it has been active in all instances.

I thought that this may have to do with some of the pre-installed software, in which case other machines would have the same behavior.

Has anybody else seen this on his/her X60s? is there a simple remedy for this?

[pphilipko]

It might be the first signs of a hard drive failing. My i Series thinkpad from a long time ago started displaying this symptom two weeks before the hard drive failed. I suggest you back up all your important data and check your disk for any signs of error. Is your hard drive doing any rhythmic ticking?

[surg]

Are you sure you didn't move your machine prior to 'freezes'? Might be HDD protection kicked in.

[ahrkron]

I've had a couple of laptop hard drives gone bad, and this seems different. No rythmic ticking, nor too many tries before opening files. Anyway. I'll follow your advise and backup important data from it.

Also, this has always happened while the machine sits firmly on a table. This is my main machine, but I usually work through a terminal opened in a different machine, with a higher resolution monitor; i.e., usually I don't even type on this one, so I think we can rule out the active protection system. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

[christopher_wolf]

I've had a couple of laptop hard drives gone bad, and this seems different. No rythmic ticking, nor too many tries before opening files. Anyway. I'll follow your advise and backup important data from it.

Also, this has always happened while the machine sits firmly on a table. This is my main machine, but I usually work through a terminal opened in a different machine, with a higher resolution monitor; i.e., usually I don't even type on this one, so I think we can rule out the active protection system. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Did you run it through a SMART utilities test as well as a surface scan and stress test? You can also use HDTune to benchmark it should you want. I would try those out before declaring the HDD as failing.