On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 01:31:32PM +0000, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > With that kind of hardware you shouldn't be having resource problems, bloat > ware or not... > > It could be, as mentioned before, a process hogging it all... But > > $ top > > Would show that... With drive write issues, have you ruled out hardware? A > bad hard disk controller on your motherboard or failures with RAM, Buses, or > the Proc could all be culprits... Do you have a way to swap parts with known > goods, friends in a user or LUG group maybe that can loan compatible hardware > for troubleshooting???
I've looked at top, iotop, straced processes and other such things. Nothing at this point showed up. Everything is otherwise idle with mimimal load. But it's not specific to a single machine. I've seen the same intermittent freezing on a variety of hardware, from laptops to much bigger systems, the largest being an 8 core Xeon with 16 GiB memory and 3TB of disc. For these reasons, I think something in the current desktop environments, X11, dbus or some other common feature is to blame. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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