Am Mittwoch, den 03.07.2013, 16:13 -0400 schrieb Scott Lawrence: > My experience is that freezes are almost always associated with the hard drive > having spun down, and needing to spin up before something can be read from the > disk. (It just happened, as I was typing that sentence.) Tweak power settings > to make spin-downs more rare, or banish them altogether if you're willing to > take a minor hit to power consumption. This my experience, too. I had similar symtoms on my machine and suspected the Gnome-Shell. But then I found out that my harddrive doesn’t support the “min_power” policy (only “medium_power”) which I had activated through an udev rule. Regards, coderkun