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 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx