The problem is... 11.3 is
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 10:01:58 C wrote: periodically freezing. The lock or freeze
never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze.
Can you run top over ssh from another machine and watch that console for what is causing the cpu spike? For example, last year I set my desktop background to be slideshow of a folder of 10MP photos, and noticed exactly this behaviour whenever the photo changed. I used this technique to see what was happening despite the UI freeze, and the culprit turned out to be a mis-optimisation in the image loader that was saturating Xorg with 3MB pixmap traffic. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org