On 02/12/2007, wwp <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > > now that my Fedora 8 is fully set up, I notice periodical short > hangs of the Desktop, making its use quite uncomfortable. `top` tells me > that the X and Nautilus processes are eating up to 30% of CPU every > 15-20sec approximately (I can hear some disk activity as well). > > Sensors applets are configured to poll on a longer period basis so it's > probably not them. No cron activity has been set. Anyway, I was running > the same applets with my Fedora Core 5 and GNOME and never encountered > such behaviour before. > > For the record, nautilus-action is installed and there are few mounts > (USB disks) visible onto the Desktop. I've tried closing all apps (but > GNOME Desktop) and this still happens. > > Anybody has this too? Or any hint? Which kernel is this? I am seeing something similar with the recent 2.6.23.8-63 kernel.