On Fri, 23 May 2014 11:30:26 -0400 Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23/05/14 09:37 AM, Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:45:26 PM Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > I'm running Debian/Jessie on an AMD64 system. The problem I'm > > > having is > > > > > that every several minutes or so, KDE lock ups. > > > > > > > > > > It doesn't totally freeze but applications might get slow or even > > > stop > > > > > responding entirely for a minute or two. Dolphin is particularly > > > bad. It > > > > > seems to lock up the longest. However even a game like kreversi > > > doesn't > > > > > respond for a period. The mouse responds, as does keyboard input > > > in > > > > > konsole, but sometimes even Kicker (or whatever they're calling > > > the > > > > > launch bar these days) stops responding. > > > > > > > > > > Iceweasel and Icedove also stop responding when the system all > > > but > > locks. > > > > > > > > > > I've checked Top and Iotop but nothing seems to be causing > > > excessive > > > > > disk or cpu activity. Even virtuoso, which has been implicated in > > > some > > > > > slowdowns, seems to be behaving itself. Killing it doesn't help. > > > > > > > > > > I've been working in Gnome for the last half hour without > > > incident, so > > > > > It's probably not a hardware or network issue. However, I prefer > > > KDE and > > > > > would like to get back to it. > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > I don't have any idea what is causing this, but I have KDE setup > > with six virtual desktops. When an application freezes (Opera or > > Dolphin, usually), switching desktops and returning generally fixes > > it. It doesn't happen nearly as often as you describe, however, > > maybe a few times a day. > > > > > Thanks Chris, but it's not the same problem. Switching virtual > desktops has no effect in my case. And the lockup appear to be > periodic - about every 10 - 15 minutes, lasting a minute or two. > > There also appears to be continuous disk activity at the time, but > iotop doesn't show any particular application hogging the disk. > Interestingly, I can launch kreversi and it will often appear on the > desktop while this is happening, but I won't be able to make a move > in it until the lockup the finishes. However, top also doesn't show > any unusual cpu activity. > > I had been suspecting a hardware or network issue (I had a similar > problem twice recently - once resolved by reducing my nfs share > connections and the other by replacing a network switch), but this > time switching to Gnome from KDE corrected the problem. Since I have > the same applications running (including dolphin and kontact) plus an > extra terminal (to launch konsole) over the same number of desktops, > this indicates that it is something in the kde desktop environment. > > If you create a new user, and run everything with the defaults, do you still have those lockups ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140523175055.317b0b92@mycroft
