On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote:
> I believe this is likely a network issue but I'm having difficulty > tracking it down. I had a very similar problem a while back that seemed to > be from having too many NFS shares. I'd reduced the number to 4 and it > cleared up. > > I had another similar problem later that I tracked down to a failing > network switch. Replacing it got things back to normal. > > I reduced the number of NFS shares to 2 when the problem came back but > that didn't help. > > What happens is the disk light goes solid for several minutes, during > which iotop sometimes shows some activity from virtuoso-t and jbd2, but not > huge amounts. Dolphin becomes unresponsive for the longest period, but any > other program may also stop responding. The mouse cursor still moves and > terminal sessions remain active. Top shows my computer is loafing along. > top doesn't catch everything, of course. Anyways, ... > I'm running Jessie with a KDE desktop. I update daily. > > I've looked at iperf stats and they show I'm getting the expected speed to > my server (three switches away). My Internet speed is also what I'm paying > for. > > Any ideas on how to track down the problem? As in the following? http://www.google.com/search?q=virtuoso-t http://www.google.com/search?q=jbd2 http://www.google.com/search?q=nepomuk+cpu (I am not a fan of actively indexing desktop databases, especially not in their current grab-it-all versions.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.
