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On 08/10/2018 14.20, Chris Coutinho wrote:
These are great ideas David, thanks for the input. The pauses occur as soon as I login to a graphical session, with no other applications or exotic services running in the background. The workstation has more than enough RAM that it doesn't swap - that's not the issue.
I checked accessing the workstation via SSH and the problem doesn't occur, it's primarily a graphics/desktop issue.
Then I would suggest trying a different desktop, and if no improvement, then try downgrade to an older nvidia driver. Or upgrade if there is a newer one. Then you can try the nvidia driver installed "the hard way", which allows you to try reporting the issue directly at nvidia forums. Ah, of course, you can also try the non-proprietary drivers. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)