Petrus de Calguarium <kwhiskerz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > For the last 3-4 days, I have noticed that my system will > intermittently hang and become unresponsive, then run again, > then hang, etc. Sometimes it is just for a bit, > occasionally, it is so bad that the hangs are about 98% of > the time, while running is only 2% or less of the time, so > bad that it takes more than 10 minutes just to get from an X > session to shutting off the computer. > I had a glance at the system activity and I noticed that > some processes had 'disk sleep' next to them. Whenever the > computer began to run, this would change into a %cpu and > whenever the hangs occurred, 'disk sleep' would reappear. It sounds to me like your disk drive is on the verge of failure: it's taking a long time to process some read or write operations, probably because it is retrying many times before succeeding. You should look in the kernel log for evidence of problems, and/or check the drive's SMART status if it supports that. Back up your data immediately, and then see about replacing the drive. regards, tom lane -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
