On 04/22/2012 12:40 AM, David Kramer wrote: > This is on my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop (Dell Latitude D820). I don't know > when it started, but every now and then I get into this condition where > the UI seems almost completely locked up (the mouse may move a little > occasionally but the clock is frozen). The hard drive light is often > on for long periods of time, too. But even when I can move the mouse, > clicking on a window's close button does nothing. Usually it never > recovers from this state and I need to hard power down. > > The first couple of line from "top -c" read > top - 00:13:25 up 6 days, 16:25, 6 users, load average: 16.16, 19.67, > 21.58 > Tasks: 194 total, 3 running, 189 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie > Cpu(s): 13.3%us, 5.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 81.4%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 2060180k total, 2009288k used, 50892k free, 3488k buffers > Swap: 1574328k total, 1492652k used, 81676k free, 62024k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 6835 david 20 0 704m 184m 2352 R 20 9.2 142:15.54 > plugin-containe > 19747 david 20 0 226m 170m 4868 S 15 8.5 4:07.80 geeqie > > 1185 root 20 0 231m 82m 6488 S 1 4.1 137:38.82 Xorg > > 6637 david 20 0 1174m 264m 11m D 1 13.2 99:02.16 firefox > > 20780 root 20 0 2548 1240 916 R 1 0.1 0:00.04 top > > 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:05.28 events/0 > > > So I don't see what the cores are so busy with. I was only able to get > these numbers by eventually getting a text mode screen by pressing > Ctr-Alt-F2 (get to a text shell) before it decided to do something. > Swap space is low but should be sufficient. > > What can be locking up my laptop and causing the slowdown?
I forgot to mention that I suspected heat, as the laptop probably has a lot of cat hair into it. I currently have it sitting on a cooling pad with fans, and it still happened. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
