Hi, My system with KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable is demonstrating some quite irritating behaviour:
It works very well except that periodically, about after two hours of use or so, it suddenly starts crunching the disk as if swapping heavily. In about a minute or two every UI process is suffocated and for example the KDE clock, mouse pointer, text mode console and SSH daemon (even on nice level -19!) stop responding completely. This goes on about 5-10 minutes after which everything either comes back to normal or (sometimes) a few processes (like desktop, konqueror or kwin) have died of insufficient memory. I guess kernel runs out of swap space and then gives up. TOP doesn't show any process hogging memory once the hard disk starts to roll. Possibly a kernel incompatibility with some part of KDE? Any ideas on how to start debugging this? Some version info: + Celeron 300 Mhz + 128 MB of memory + Linux 2.4.13 i686 + KDE 2.2 + libqt2 2.3.1-17 + libqt2-mt 2.3.1-17 (no -gl) + XFree86 4.1.0.1 + Diamon viper 550 (TNT 1 variant) + NVidia-GLX 1.0.1512-2 + NVidia-kernel 2.4.13_1.0.1541-3_i386 - Jarno
