XFCE Hangs

[Robin Haswell]

I experience these problems when I'm running on a harddisk that's at
death's door. Possible?

John Lee wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
>>John Lee wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>via_velocity           31712  0
>>>crc_ccitt               1728  1 via_velocity
>>>crc32                   3904  1 via_velocity
>>>
>>>Any thoughts?
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>It seems pretty clear that it is not a nvidia driver bug.
>>
>>What leads to the freeze? Did you setup some launcher that when run, 
>>cause the system to freeze? Can you find a way to reproduce the problem?
>>
>>Fixing an issue without being able to reproduce it is a had task for us, 
>>so any hint on what leads to the freeze can help.
>>
>>Also, you said you could ssh to the foezn system and see X eating 94%of 
>>the CPU. This can happen when an app is looping with X events (ie 
>>responding to an event by generating another event and so on). If X is 
>>eating 94% of the CPU, which app is next just after X?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Olivier.
>>
>>  
>>
> I am running Folding at Home, which is started by Xfce when it launches. It
> also launches gAIM and Skype automatically. Other than that, there's
> nothing else launched when Xfce starts, and the hanging is pretty
> random, although it almost always happens just after I click on
> something, be it a hypertext link or a menu button. I can't remember
> exactly what comes after X in top, but I think it was Folding at Home. (So
> I presume the next step would be to disable Folding at Home and see if the
> freezing continues?)
> 
> John
> 
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