On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:08:28 -0400 Jim <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have 4 different Fedora boxes at different locations with KDE > Desktops Freezing Applications or clicking on mouse for intervals of > 10-15 seconds at a time. Nothing shows up in System Monitor to > indicate why. > > Anyone have these problems ? I run Gnome, but I used to see similar behavior in the GUI, though the delays were somewhat less, more like 5 to 10 seconds. I started running top, and then iotop, and found that it was always updatedb or one of those background jobs. The trouble was they weren't background because they were run by root, and they hogged resources. I set flags in the cron job that told it to only run when there was nothing else requiring the resource and that fixed it. Perhaps you have the same issue? These are the relevant lines from the mlocate.cron job in /etc/cron.daily. I can't remember what was originally there, that was a long time ago. There are man pages for both renice and ionice. renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1 ionice -c3 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1 Do this for all io and cpu hogs that don't need high priority. -- 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
