Hello Jonathan, On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:58:16 +0000 "Jonathan Underwood" <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 here. I'm currently yum-update'ing and will check when done. The interesting fact is that I don't encounter the periodical hang within XFCE or KDE, only from GNOME. For the sake of the archives: a passive way to feel it is to watch at a cpu monitor graph for one minute w/o doing anything else: you'll see short activity peaks very 15sec. Another way is to constantly make use of the window manager, like moving windows, changing workspace, rolling/unrolling menus and you'll feel something not natural ;-). Regards, -- wwp
