Re: KDE locks up periodically
On Fri, 23 May 2014 11:30:26 -0400
Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> 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 ?
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