Re: Frequent temporary freezes on Dell XPS 13 laptop

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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
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