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.