Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 10.02.2016 um 14:05 schrieb Timothy Murphy: >> Recently I've found that some program is running >> on my Fedora-23/KDE laptop and (presumably) taking 100$ of the CPU, >> so that no keyboard or mouse input is possible. >> I see that there is constant hard drive usage. >> The "outage" only lasts 20 seconds or so, >> so it is not a serious problem. >> It usually happens just after logging in, >> but occasionally it happens later. >> >> Is there any way of seeing what the program is, >> since obviously I cannot run anything like "top"? > > why can't you? There is no response to any keyboard input, including Ctrl/Alt/F2 . Maybe I misunderstand your suggestion? > kde freezing is not the same as computer freezing Actually, I have no reason to think a KDE program is responsible. It just seemed more likely ... > * dnf install htop > * configure it to show I/O > * CTRL+ALT+F2 -> login into a VT -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx