On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500 Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was > > still getting the solid disk light intermittently but it's didn't > > slow the system to a crawl. After restarting Iceweasel and > > restoring the previous session, things have continued to be speedy. > > The disk light is still coming on and staying solid for extended > > periods, but the system isn't slowed down. > > > > The main i/o users currently are virtuoso-t and ext4lazyinit > > (occasionally jbd2 shows up), with virtuoso being by far the > > largest (and doing both read and write). > > > > At this point I'm confused... But my system is speedy again after > > weeks of being frustratingly slow. > > > Spoke too soon. The problem is back and shutting down Iceweasel > didn't fix it this time. Gary, if you're running KDE, read this: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=92886 Personally, because of instability, slowdowns and hangs on Mandrake and Mandriva and Ubuntu, I exiled every KDE program and library from my computer, and life has been faster and more stable ever since. Because of KDE's philosophy of monolithic entanglement, it's not enough to use a non-KDE desktop but use KDE apps, I found I had to banish all things KDE from my system to get rid of 99% CPU dbus processes, gigabyte-plus soprano-virtuoso.db files, and various other intermittent KDEisms. I've heard people say the KDE problems were due to poor integration in the Linux distribution, so perhaps if you used Wheezy instead of Jessie this problem would go away. But from my perspective, if I need to choose distros based on whether KDE doesn't screw up, that's a KDE problem, not a distro problem. I've had excellent results with Xfce. Same with LXDE, except LXDE traditionally has slow mousing. I've found OpenBox to be excellent if you like that no-taskbar experience. By the way, my advice would be to install Xfce no matter what you really use for a desktop, just so you can have the outstanding xfce4-appfinder program, which is a spectacular timesaver if bound to a hotkey. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140301123645.5641cb42@mydesk
