Hi Trent, thanks for the answer.
>> for the last few weeks I have problems with unresponsive konsoles (and >> gnome-terminals as well, I tried) under KDE with Debian 7.8. Please not: I meant konsole, the KDE terminal, not the text console of a Debian system. I may have confused you here, sorry. >> They seem to be extremely slow (I have to wait for 10 seconds after >> entering a simple command) and I believe it happens only when I am >> running >> commands with large output in other windows (e.g. a ssh session to a >> FreeBSD server and "make buildworld") > > When this happens, check loadavg (it should be below N, where N is the > number of CPU cores); check for procs in D state; check iostat; > check free. My problem is not the "make" on the FreeBSD server, it is the graphical terminal(KDE's konsole or gnome-terminal) > In my experience with fbcon, large output (e.g. dmesg or cat > /var/log/syslog) will slow the entire system noticably, but switching to > another vt (Ctrl+Alt+F2) "fixes" it. > > I also noticed it running scren inside xterm, but it was MUCH MUCH MUCH > faster to recover -- it's the main reason I start X by default these > days. Until now I have not seen it inside xterm. It seems to be the terminal application itself, konsole or gnome-terminal, which holds all terminals in one application. It means, KDE's konsole becomes unresponsive. I can switch to IceWeazel (e.g.) but the drawing of another konsole window takes a long long time. > Are you running screen / tmux? > > When this happens, is the "lots of output" window onscreen? > Try minimizing it (konsole) and switching window or detaching (screen), > so that fewer layers are trying to render the "lots of output". I am running things sometimes in screen but I am not sure whether it was always the case when I experienced the problem. Sometimes the "large output" window is a hidden tab or in a different workspace. So the actual rendering does not seem to be the problem. The problem appeared only recently.. so I wonder what kind of change could have triggered it. I also run KDE's konsole on a much less powerful laptop running PC-BSD + Fluxbox. I have not seen the problem there at all. I actually like the KDE but I always seem to get to a point where some things are becoming unstable. So at the end I usually return to other X11 environments which are lite. I am just installing Fluxbox.. I do not want to worry about my own desktop. I want to concentrate on the servers I look after.. Regards Peter _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
