Wierd problem with system running slowly?

Bes · 2007-08-01 23:10:33

Hi

Arch has been great up until now... but I am getting this really odd issue occasionally:

Arch starts up, runs for anything between 30 minutes and a week perfectly, and then suddenly starts running very very slowly. Even the mouse is ultra slow to respond to movement.

Bringing up the console in this state shows I have free swap, memory, and CPU usage is 0-5% at all times.

I am then forced to shut down, but when I do this, it gets stuck on the unmounting filesystems bit and requires a manual press of the reset button.

Any ideas?

Thanks

finferflu · 2007-08-01 23:38:40

What desktop environment are you using? I had a similar issue when running KDE with the gtk-qt-engine (or something of that sort) back on Debian, and had to reinstall the whole thing, since I couldn't get rid of that slowness. Also when I was on Ubuntu I used to get this issue when I switched from Gnome to Xfce, I still don't know why, but I guess it was related to graphic libraries...

Bes · 2007-08-02 00:01:11

Gnome XGL Only noticed it happening recently

Last edited by Bes (2007-08-02 00:17:49)

geek.arnuld · 2007-08-02 08:12:25

i had the same problem. do you have your hostname in "/etc/hosts" ?

Bes · 2007-08-02 09:43:53

My hosts file:

[sam@sam ~]$ more /etc/hosts
#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost sam

# End of file

brickwedde.eu · 2007-08-02 10:18:56

I have got the same problem, my gnome starts and runs very slow when I'm not connected to the Internet. When i plugin the Ethernetcable it runs fast again.

Bes · 2007-08-24 12:06:37

Hmm the problem seems to have gone away now- maybe pacman -Syu got rid of some bug in Gnome?

mr.MikyMaus · 2007-08-25 20:37:49

Try

# dmesn -n8
# dmesg | tail -f

when the computer starts to lag.

If you see lines somehow similar to

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {Drive Ready Seek Complete Error}
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 {Drive Status Error Bad CRC}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown

then it's time to change your harddisk...

Try to guess where's my footer from

-miky

Last edited by mr.MikyMaus (2007-08-25 20:38:59)

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#1 2007-08-01 23:10:33

Wierd problem with system running slowly?

#2 2007-08-01 23:38:40

Re: Wierd problem with system running slowly?

#3 2007-08-02 00:01:11

Re: Wierd problem with system running slowly?

#4 2007-08-02 08:12:25

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#5 2007-08-02 09:43:53

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#6 2007-08-02 10:18:56

Re: Wierd problem with system running slowly?

#7 2007-08-24 12:06:37

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