All,
I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc. This occurs not only in Firefox, but generally regardless of what I'm doing.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
TIA,
Herb
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:07 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
All,
I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc. This occurs not only in Firefox, but generally regardless of what I'm doing.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
---- crystal ball cloudy...open a console session and run top and monitor to see if something spikes CPU or Memory on a periodic basis.
Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control.
Craig
Smith, Herb wrote, On 03/23/2009 11:07 AM:
All,
I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc. This occurs not only in Firefox, but generally regardless of what I'm doing.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
Home directory on NFS/SAMBA/AFS/other network file system?
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control.
Why are you still using the proprietary Adobe Reader? Use Okular! :-) Or Evince.
---- I am using proprietary Adobe Reader until I can fill out data forms in something else and last time I checked, I couldn't do that in anything but acroread.
The Adobe Reader application isn't so bad but the plugin for Firefox just ends up eating RAM until it becomes unusable. Generally, I get around to removing the plugin so that files just simply get downloaded and opened separately but I haven't done that yet to this system...but I will soon.
Craig
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:16:25 -0700, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control.
Why are you still using the proprietary Adobe Reader? Use Okular! :-) Or Evince.
I am using proprietary Adobe Reader until I can fill out data forms in something else and last time I checked, I couldn't do that in anything but acroread.
Evince seems to allow that now, though I didn't do a lot of testing. Evince has gotten a lot better in the last year.
The Adobe Reader application isn't so bad but the plugin for Firefox
If you trust adobe (both their intent and their competence).
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:43:20 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Why are you still using the proprietary Adobe Reader? Use Okular! :-) Or Evince.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220983
Smith, Herb wrote:
All,
I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it. Within the last week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds. The cursor won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc. This occurs not only in Firefox, but generally regardless of what I'm doing.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
TIA,
Herb
You have not given an details to even suggest something. "top" is your tool to start with. "ps" is another. iostat and dstat are other tools that can help.
http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2008/11/linux-system-monitoring-using-dstat....
I am having similar issues but I now know that mine are due to IO and D-states. I want to get more ram to see if that helps but I also know that running dmraid and luks is putting a load on the system. I need a faster system in the future.
There is also this article that was on this list a few weeks ago.
http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenessland-w...
I do see these slight freezes in Firefox, even on my faster 64bit machine at work.