On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 03:25, Aleksey Nogin wrote: > On 23.04.2004 18:03, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 10:41, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > >>Twice now - X11 suddenly stops responding, or is extremely slow in > >>responding. The mouse works just fine - so it's not a refresh issue, but > >>the window manager/desktop (gnome) takes forever to respond to clicks. > >> > >>Switching to a virtual console is instantaneous - but there is a delay > >>in log in. But once logged in, the cli is snappy - but the problem > >>persists in X11. > > > > Yeah, I am seeing pretty much the same thing, but it's not localized to > > X11. Some other random things are seeing "pauses", like setfiles. And > > I have an ATI Radeon, so at least it isn't a problem with one particular > > graphics card. > > > > At first I thought the behavior was SELinux related, but it still > > happens when I boot with SELinux disabled. Haven't seen anything in any > > of the logs though. If I go back a couple of kernels, the problem seems > > to go away. > > I am seeing something like this too. The way it looks for me is as if > the hard drive just stops responding - everything that wants disk access > freezes, but everything else keeps working normally. Once in a while the > disk would "unfreeze", I would see a lot of disk activity, and then > another freeze (for a periods varying from a few seconds to couple of > minutes). > > These freezes always start when something very disk-intensive is running > (slocate's updatedb, "setfiles check", etc). Quitting Mozilla sometimes > helps get rid of them for a while, in other cases only a reboot makes > them go away (until they come back a few hours later). > > This is a major blocker, IMHO. I had a similar problem in both Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1. Then, it disappeared with FC2, but came back recently, after a yum update (something like 1 or 2 weeks ago). -- Julien Olivier <julo@xxxxxxxxxx>
