On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 05:32:22PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 3/29/19 1:51 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >Hi, > >I just got my new XPS 13 (the 2019 model) and installed Fedora 29 on it. > >Everything looks great except that when I work in the shell I experience > >a freeze of the system that lasts for about 1-2 seconds and that occurs > >every 30-60 seconds which is quite annoying. > >I tried isolating the issue by working in an xterm but this shows the > >same symptoms as the gnome terminal I usually use. There is nothing in > >the logs that correlates with these freezes and it only seems to occur > >in a shell. > >What is really strange is that when I have glxgears running in a window > >then the animation there will also freeze when the freeze in the shell > >happens but when I have a youtube video running in Firefox then the > >freezes disappear completely and I can work normally in the shell. > >This happens both in a Wayland and X11 session. > > > >Does anyone have an Idea what could cause this strange issue and how I > >can debug this further? > > > >Regards, > > Dennis > > > Hi Dennis, > > That usually means the CPU is so tied up doing something > it can't get around to you. > > Try the following > > 1) see if your hard drive is okay. Repreads to get over bad > spots will cause this. > > # dnf install gsmartcontrol > > 2) run "top" to see if anyone is going CPU crazy > > 3) run off a Live USB. If the symptom persists, > there is something wrong with your hardware. > > Let us know, > -T
Also, are by any chance running the Folding At Home client on this machine? Even with FAH doing GPU folding only I had that problem on Centos. It was particularly noxious when watching any kind of video. Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
