I don't have swap enabled. It's usually a dev virtualbox vm I'm running that goes berserk and I can't click on anything or even move my mouse until eventually I think something kills the vm process.
I was looking into using the magic SysRq key to kill the offending process but it only can kill everything and it's kind of a pain when X dies. .Carlo On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Aleksei <[email protected]> wrote: > Carlo Cabanilla <[email protected]> writes: > > > Is there a good way of keeping awesome responsive even when certain > > clients are using up all the cpu? Maybe something clever with cgroups? > > Dear Carlo, usually Linux manages cpu usage quite well, preventing > freezes by dynamically increasing priority for low cpu consuming > processes (such as awesome wm). Which clients reduce responsiveness ? > > I suppose that responsiveness issues caused by some other reasons, for > example by swapping, or by using slow widgets in awesome. Have you tried > to disable all third party widgets in awesome ? > -- .Carlo syntacticbayleaves.com
