Re: [e-users] desktop freezing like in windows xp

[roland]

Stéphane Joguet wrote: Hello, I'm not sure but i think i've got the same problem. I noticed that firefox, gimp or Eterm take a long time to start, and use 100% of CPU and when the window is up i've got the bar title blinking in red. It happens more with firefox, when I try to use a menu or when I type an address or use google search, the title bar blink in red and it take a very long time to show me the page or the result of the search. I'm on a gentoo linux with e17 compile from CVS (sourceforge). I use firefox 1.0.7, the same problem with 1.5. Hope this help... Regards, Stéphane -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] De la part de Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) Envoyé : mercredi 18 janvier 2006 05:37 À : Raif Sarcich Cc : enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [e-users] desktop freezing like in windows xp On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:01:34 +0800 Raif Sarcich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: Afraid so. Now, as the disk access thing hasn't been reported by the others, it could be a different problem. Whatever's going on isn't locking up the system, but is interfering with it in a major way. When this happens: * I can kill X and switch to a term and type into it, do standard operations, but the process is slow because of the constant disk access. Also, the terminal misses many keystrokes, presumably those which occur when the process is performing some operation. * I can bring X back up, but once again, very slow and consistently interrupted. * I can still and move the mouse, and last time it happened i was able to manipulate the menus of the "Links" browser in an xterm with the mouse. I cannot manipulate any GUI controls though, whether part of e or qt or gtk. * As noted, the enlightenment process is unkillable. Still, the computer manages to shut down cleanly without protest. if you run top - is somehting wrong. is e like usign up 2gb of ram? or is somehting eatign cpu? if so - what? or eating ram My distro is Suse 10, and it's running on a compaq presario laptop with an ATI graphics chip, using the "radeon" driver in xorg.conf. I tend to use mainly kde apps, and though i can't be sure, it does usually seem to be konqueror that i'm using when this happens, though it's frozen using firefox as well ... i'm sorry i can't be more precise, as even when using firefox, konqueror was probably open. I can't reproduce it at will, unfortunately. Hope this helps. The freeze doesn't happen often, maybe once every four or five days, and i'm enjoying using e17. Thanks for your hard work. i do know there are freezes in X itself with some drivers (i have found with the ati fglrx closed drivers theres a nasty hang - happens with some combinations of renderng ops - its nto an e or firefox issue, but somehow both can trigger it and when that happens x consumes 100% cpu and u have to kill -9 x) but why e is not killable - see above. is it eating ram or something? Raif Quoting "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:54:09 +0800 Raif Sarcich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: I can report i have had this problem too - usually associated with Konqueror or Kontact. An additional symptom is a continually flickering HD LED thereafter until I do a reboot, and the enlightenment process is impossible to kill -9 even after killing the X server. I will have to see if it has anything to do with drag-and-drop now. what - even kill -9 doesnt work? Raif Sarcich Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: when does it happen? what did you do just before? do things still keep drawing/updating? (if somethig was animating.. does it keep animating?) =20 I can reproduice that easily with an drag&drop operation with efm. e17 free= zes immediately. =0A=0A=0A=0A"Jetzt Handykosten senken mit klarmobil - 14 Ct./Min.! Hier kli= cken"=0Awww.klarmobil.de/index.html?pid=3D73025=0A ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. 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