Re: Unknown program stops input

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On Wednesday 10 of February 2016 14:18:48 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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?

It could be also IO thrashing. I would suggest to keep two terminal windows 
with iotop and htop always open above other windows, and see if you can notice 
anything when such events happen.


-- 
Luigi
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