-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/04/15 05:10, Anton Aylward wrote:
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 :-(
So even though gkrellm shows the increased number of processes, the lack of information on CPU usage, memory, swap etc is unreliable?
There is no increase in memory usage, swapping out or CPU hogging during these events.
Well *something* is going on!
Absolutely.
'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
I'll try that Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 7:55, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUmOusACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU6cIQCdFNMsApYlGoTLLq1MIP/Q5/q0 ssIAoIlG9XCq/wwmB7vDWos3Ow14ZKao =vy+7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org