MEPIS miro-freezes several time a second

Bad_Bob · 03-09-2005, 08:47 AM

This is getting really annoying. Anytime my computer has been running for a while (maybe an hour) doing simple things like surfing the web in firefox, using open office to write a document, and browsing my files in konqueror it starts doing this. Everything on the screen (except the cursor) freezes for a split second. If I am scrolling down a webpages, it stops scrolling, if I am typing, no characters apear on the screen during the freeze. I tried reinstalling the latest simply mepis (as of feb 12 2005), but I preserved my home directory, and I fear this is what preserved my problem. Is there somthing I can turn off to solve this? Are others having this problem?

-A refuge form Windows

P.S.
Here's my top command, if it helps. I certainly don't understand it
(I am running a 2ghz box with 1 gig of ram)

Code:

top - 09:34:27 up 19 min,  1 user,  load average: 3.27, 2.18, 1.19
Tasks:  95 total,   1 running,  93 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  5.0% us,  0.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 93.7% id,  0.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.3% si
Mem:   1035256k total,   490600k used,   544656k free,    24780k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   255476k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3812 root       5 -10  102m  26m 2568 S  3.7  2.6   1:42.83 XFree86
 3199 root      15   0  5640 1992 1512 S  0.3  0.2   0:01.47 nmbd
 4325 axiom     15   0 27080  13m  10m S  0.3  1.3   0:00.47 klipper
 4336 axiom     15   0 31316  15m  11m S  0.3  1.6   0:05.32 superkaramba
 4419 axiom     15   0  119m  46m  17m S  0.3  4.6   4:31.09 firefox-bin
 5046 axiom     15   0 29856  15m  11m S  0.3  1.5   0:00.39 konsole
    1 root      16   0  1500  512  452 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.49 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 events/0
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper
   16 root      15 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   87 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.07 kblockd/0
  100 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.17 khubd
  155 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  156 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 pdflush
  158 root      12 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
  157 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
  749 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
  824 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
  838 root      16   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khpsbpkt
  859 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kjournald
 2327 root       6 -10  1728  724  608 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 pump
 2586 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 kjournald
 2921 root      16   0  1556  624  524 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.01 syslogd
 2924 root      16   0  2228 1316  440 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.07 klogd
 2937 root      22   0 24600  22m 2452 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.54 spamd
 3021 root      17   0 24600  22m 2452 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.00 spamd
 3022 root      17   0 24600  22m 2452 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.00 spamd
 3023 root      17   0 24600  22m 2452 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.00 spamd
 3024 root      17   0 24600  22m 2452 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.00 spamd
 3025 root      22   0 24600  22m 2452 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.00 spamd
 3040 root      16   0  4868 1776 1236 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.03 cupsd
 3185 messageb  19   0  2080  896  796 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 dbus-daemon-1
 3191 root      19   0  1536  516  452 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 inetd
 3194 root      16   0  2516 1068  932 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 lisa
 3201 root      15   0  7620 2204 1664 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 smbd
 3207 root      18   0  7620 2188 1648 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 smbd
 3208 root      20   0  3468 1544 1304 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.13 sshd
 3217 root      15   0  5320 3804  680 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.10 xfs
 3221 root      18   0  6492 4460 1960 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 z2.py
 3222 zope      16   0 16312  13m 2680 S  0.0  1.4   0:01.37 python2.2
 3699 root      16   0  1504  408  340 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 vnetd
 3735 root      16   0  1760  812  676 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 cron
 3740 root      16   0 10584 4144 2840 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.01 apache2
 3744 root      15   0  2524  700  600 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 kdm
 3751 root      16   0  1496  468  408 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 getty
 3752 root      16   0  1496  468  408 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 getty
 3753 root      16   0  1496  468  408 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 getty
 3754 root      16   0  1496  468  408 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 getty
 3755 root      16   0  1496  468  408 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 getty
 3756 root      16   0  1496  468  408 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 getty
 3808 www-data  16   0 10716 4228 2888 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 apache2
 3809 www-data  16   0 10716 4280 2920 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 apache2
 3810 www-data  16   0 10716 4232 2888 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 apache2
 3811 www-data  16   0 10716 4228 2888 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 apache2

jonr · 03-10-2005, 07:57 PM

Look in your /var/log/messages file and see if you see any repetitive messages that might give you a clue.

I would expect that by watching top's output on the screen while this annoying behavior is happening, you might glimpse what's doing it, too.

My first guess is something writing to the hard drive so much it interrupts processing momentarily; that can be error messages and they may be showing up in /var/log/messages.

My second guess is something coming in over your Internet connection. Have you got a firewall in place? Does this problem happen when you have your connection DISCONNECTED?

Hope some of these suggestions will be helpful.

Bad_Bob · 03-13-2005, 01:46 PM

Thanks, I figured out what it was: Kompose.

Great program, have enjoyed using it for sometime, but I shall have to turn it off for now.

*runs off to submit bug report*