On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:22:15AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018/07/24 23:07, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > My workstation is freezing up a lot again (usually in 30-60ish second > > bursts with no or very slow response to mouse or keyboard or screen > > updates). > > > > I have a status bar (xstatbar) that displays a graph of the last minute > > or so's cpu% split off into user/nice/system/spin/interrupt/idle. It > > skips a lot of updates when the machine freezes but it's obvious that > > it's mostly in spin. > > > > It seems particularly likely to occur when opening browser tabs. > > > > Is there anything sane that I can do (ahead of time, as I can't type > > when it's in that state) that will give clues about what's going on? > > I had a think about what might have changed when it started freezing > again and remembered that I had switched X back to modesetting at a time > which would roughly correlate with this (I had been using intel(4) to > cope with vncviewer problems, and switched back after jcs enabled SHM > in vncviewer). > > I've moved back to intel(4) now to see if this removes/reduces the > problem. Haven't run into one since, but it's still a bit early to say > if it's actually helped. > > (intel does remove one other annoyance, for some inexplicable reason > context menus like the right-click menu in browsers often show up on the > wrong monitor with modesetting..). I see the exact same issue as you do. I'll try with s/modesetting/intel and see if it improves things.
-- Antoine
