[solved] Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/03/14 12:31 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 01/03/14 06:26 PM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid array /home. The differences

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 06:26 PM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid array /home. The differences besides the raid array are: - new user

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a > slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid > array /home. The differences besides the raid array are: > - new user configuration with almost no files

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 12:36 PM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was still getting the solid disk light intermittently but it's didn't slow the

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 12:36 PM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was still getting the solid disk light intermittently but it's didn't slow the

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: > On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was > > still getting the solid disk light intermittently but it's didn't > > slow the system to a crawl. After restarting Iceweasel and >

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 28/02/14 04:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 27 feb 14, 18:54:22, Gary Dale wrote: I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. [snip system slowdowns] I

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/02/14 04:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 27 feb 14, 18:54:22, Gary Dale wrote: I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. [snip system slowdowns] Is that soft RAID? Try booting without it

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:54:22PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > Neither top nor iotop shows any processes using any significant > resources. Konsole seems to be immune and remains responsive (when I > can get to it) but the other programs I have running (usually > Dolphin, Kontact, Icedove and Iceweas

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 feb 14, 18:54:22, Gary Dale wrote: > I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G > SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free > space. [snip system slowdowns] Is that soft RAID? Try booting without it and see what happens. Kind regards, And

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-02-27 Thread Keith Nasman
On 02/27/2014 03:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. I have 2x8G swap files that are barely used (currently 34M in each) on the SSD (I used to have them on the RAID ar

Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. I have 2x8G swap files that are barely used (currently 34M in each) on the SSD (I used to have them on the RAID array but got the same problem). Every sev