Feisty: KDE Desktop is unresponsive with minimal applications running
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| Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
This may not be a bug (Herd4) but just related to the unoptimized Herd4 and fixed by Feisty release.
ANYWAY I am running 7.04herd4 at work and I notice a lot of system bottlenecks happening. I don't think that I have an unreasonable amount of applications running; usually Amarok, Gajim, KMail, KMix, Klipper, sometimes KNotes in the system tray; on the Desktop I have maybe some Konsoles and Firefox. Today I only had QuadKonsole, Yakuake (running top), and VMWare running, and VMWare had a virtual Debian Etch running (no X). The whole system slowed to a crawl, to the point that the KDE clock was 25 minutes behind. The mouse moves but the keyboard is unresponsive/
This is a Dell something with a P2.4 processor and 512MB of RAM. It looked like it could be a disk-thrashing issue, but it said that I wasn't using any SWAP space (according to the KDE System Monitor running in the tray, which was updated 25min before I left).
I let it run overnight to see if it'll clear up or not. I am willing to provide more information if needed, and these may be long-taken care of issues/bottlenecks. However, this just seemed a bit too important to let it pass.
Thanks for the hard work, Ubuntu and Kubuntu teams!
| lefty.crupps (eljefedelito) wrote | #1 |
| VF (vfiend) wrote | #2 |
Well I have maybe solved the problems:
- Updates again today, including kernel and vmwareplayer kernel module
- my Swap wasn't being utilized at all (herd bug? probably fixed) My swap use is minimal however, but at least its available now
- VMWare Player was nice=(-10) so vmware was getting a lot of love but the rest of the desktop was not. I reniced VMWare to 0 (zero) and EVERYTHING, including VMWare Player (!), seems more responsive (this may be tied to the updates as well). Generally, I don't think that a VM should have more attention than the rest of my desktop, unless I am running a server (and if that is the case, I should know to renice my VMs if I needed to do so).
This wasn't the only time I noticed these slowdowns, but I cannot really recall what was going on the rest of the time. Maybe all is fixed, I hope so! Thanks again.