Jonathan Puthoff wrote:
My Dell Inspiron lappy (running freshly-installed and updated SUSE 10.1) experiences momentary freezes at seemingly random intervals. Symptoms appear as freezes of 2-4 seconds and possibly a spike in CPU> usage. Keystrokes and mouse motions made during the beginning of this period are still reflected after the lock-up terminates. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Perhaps there is a log file somewhere that yield some info? I was running SUSE 10.0 just fine, no problems. . . Are you running Firefox? My boxes often do this when i load new pages with Firefox, and it annoys the hell out of me.
Yes. Yes, I am. Constantly, too come to think of it. There is some strong correlation here.
I still don't get it, though. Maybe I will try Konquerer for a while and see if a difference makes itself apparent.
Thanks everyone!
I have been running Firefox and Thunderbird since they first appeared (way back!) on every version of SuSE since that time and I have never experienced this "freezing". I am currently running Firefox 3.0a1 and Thunderbird 2a1, both dated 20/08/06, without a single hiccup. So the answer to your problem(s) is not Firefox or Thunderbird. However, I have to add this: I have never run FF or TB which come as part of the SuSE installation- I always install FF and TB from the Mozilla site itself (the nightly builds, to be specific). Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1