On 04/08/2015 01:09 PM, Bob Williams wrote:
I think you're right about it being the Desktop Environment. The mouse cursor will move from side to side, but I cannot scroll the message pane in Thunderbird. I cannot switch between virtual desktops or open menus. But all this activity seems to get buffered, so when things come back to life, there is a flurry of activity as it catches up.
Yes, that makes sense and that's what I see. The system has queued the 'mouse events'
I have set top running on virtual terminal 2. I previously ran it in konsole, but I guess as that's a GUI app it might not show me what's happening to the system.
:-) The same goes for the widgets that show CPU and disk activity, unfortunately :-(
There is no increase in memory usage, swapping out or CPU hogging during these events.
Well *something* is going on! 'Top" used to be able show load average but it doesn't any more. It should show the amount of swap being used, but that's a high water mark, and not the current use. It can show the individual CPU cores activity levels. There's also iotop but its not as easy to interpret. try iotop -P -d 5 -o -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org