On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 10:53 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: > My fedora 10 laptop routinely "freezes". That means the menu's and > applications don't respond to mouse clicks. After a few seconds (or > sometimes many seconds) it frees up and works normally again. If I look > at the cpu consumption graph I can see that something had the processer > pegged at 100% but what? during the episode there is no way to switch > to top or the ksysguard process list because the system is > unresponsive. So how do I find out what caused the lockup? > wcn Wendell, There are a few options here but probably the easiest is to set top running with a long(ish) time between updates -- something like "top -d 30". When your laptop unfreezes, go to the top window and see what's been sucking CPU. -Chris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines