On 2014-06-17 08:04 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
One thing I frequently experience is my system becoming unresponsive to mouse and keyboard for a few minutes. That problem the reason I upgraded my motherboard to one with an Intel core i7 CPU, that's 4 cores & hyperthreading. The problem still occurs, though not as severe as my old mom board. When it happens, kswapd0 seems to be the culprit, but Firefox or Seamonkey might be involved. I run top, iotop and the System Monitor, on their own desktop to see what happens. On the new motherboard, System Monitor shows 2 or 3 cores (of 8) pegged at 100%. Incidentally, it may take a couple of minutes to switch to the desktop where I have the monitors running. I did not experience this prior to KDE4.
How big is netpredictions.sqlite in your Gecko profiles? Places.sqlite? How many open tabs? Does your top look anything like this? PID VIRT RES SHR %CPU %MEM COMMAND USER TIME+ PR NI S 26313 344m 120m 16m 13 3.0 firefox-bin def 746:02.01 20 0 S 32732 1318m 1.0g 48m 7 25.0 seamonkey def 76:13.95 20 0 S 26513 662m 320m 29m 4 8.0 firefox def 105:11.62 20 0 R 2726 192m 57m 3948 2 1.4 Xorg root 514:17.17 20 0 S 3159 0 0 0 2 0.0 kworker/1:2 root 0:03.00 20 0 S 3146 30876 8184 5836 1 0.2 kcmshell def 153:31.15 20 0 S 3216 2516 984 708 1 0.0 top root 56:31.68 20 0 R 18241 633m 297m 32m 1 7.4 seamonkey def 29:35.12 20 0 S 25923 793m 475m 22m 1 11.8 firefox def 61:00.88 20 0 S 2903 98524 44m 10m 0 1.1 konqueror def 101:31.34 20 0 S 26373 146m 33m 7120 0 0.8 plugin-containe def 35:17.41 20 0 S -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org