momentary freeze ups

[TRINH Minh Hieu]

From: Todd And Margo Chester <toddandmargo at gmail.com>

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> Subject: Re: momentary freeze ups
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> On 04/13/2012 12:29 PM, killermoehre wrote:
> > Am 13.04.2012 21:20, schrieb Todd And Margo Chester:
> >> Hi All,
> >
> > Hi you two.
> >
> >> I have two computers running Xfce 4.8.  One is running Scientific
> >> Linux 6.2 (RHEL 6.2 clone) 64 bit and the other is running
> >> Fedora Core 16, 64 bit.
> >>
> >> Occasionally, in any program, the computers will freeze up from
> >> anywhere between five seconds and 20 seconds.  Then recover as if
> >> nothing happened.
> >
> > Define ?any?. Just GUI, or CLI, too?
>
> They both boot into Xfce.  The freeze ups occur in Xfce.  Say,
> you go on to Firefox, click a link and nothing happens for five
> seconds.  Mouse works.  Say you are typing into Libre Office,
> half a sentence will hide and then appear after 10 seconds.
>
> >
> >> "top" shows hardly any CPU activity.  "free -m" shows three times
> >> the empty space as used.
> >>
> >> Is there some kind of file indexing going on?  On the Gnome side,
> >> I know they have something called "tracker", but I don't see it
> >> in Xfce.
> >
> > No. Xfce is lightweight.
>
> And very, very much appreciated.  I "bristle" when I have to work
> in OS'es/GUI's that think the OS/GUI should be an "amusement park".
>
> >
> >> 32 bit FC 16 Live CD does not "seem" to show the freeze ups, but
> >> it is hard to get a good test as most of the native programs are
> >> not usable.  Prior to wiping and installing 64 bit, both these
> >> machines were running 32 bit (CentOS 4.x and CentOS 5.x) with
> >> no freeze ups.
> >>
> >> Any idea how to troubleshoot this?
> >
> > Does this happen since the very beginning?
>
> Since the 64 bit upgrade (wipe and reinstall)
>
> > Did you alter something in
> > the last time?
>
> No.
>
> > What says pstree?
>
> Sweet utility.  Did not know it existed.  I have been using
> gnome-system-monitor, which give the same thing.  Could not
> find anything out of the ordinary.  Just that both systems
> seem to be vastly under utilized.
>
> > How do you start your session?
>
> Gdm.
>
> > What
> > daemons are running in the background?
>
> What ever came with the Live CD that I installed from
>
> > Is your RAM busy?
> "free -m" shows about 384 meg used of 4 gig
>
> > Is your hard drive working?
>
> Yes.  Both the front panel LED and lots of rattling
> noise from the hard drive itself.  This is why I asked
> about tracker.
>
>
Can it be hard drive sleep feature ? Hard drive wake up can freeze a bit
... May be the update change some settings about hard drive timeout ?
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