Hi,
This morning my hard drive started thrashing and everything else stopped. The
trouble was that (unlike Windows) I couldn't bring up a Task Manager by typing
ALT-CTRL-DEL, so I have no idea what the problem was.
Here's what happened (I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my 64 bit dual core
Athlon):
* I was reading a web forum using Firefox and listening to music using Amarok.
Everything was normal. On the desktop, I had Skype, HPLIP and the usual
Klipper and KNetwork icons sitting in the System Tray.
* My daughter switched on her laptop and Skype told me she had come online.
* The hard drive started chattering and the drive light was almost solid red
(this may be co-incidental of course).
* The music started stuttering, the mouse almost stopped responding and the
machine wouldn't respond to clicks on Activity icons or hot-key combinations.
* Even so, I manged to click on the Utilities Activity, to get at the System
Monitor icon. I also typed ALT-F2 to get a chance to run HTOP.
* I went off to do something else for 15 to 20 mins. At the end of this time,
I saw my Utilities Activity come to the fore and the command line interface
came down from the top. At the same time, the disk activity ceased, so I was
too late to see what process was hogging the machine. I did see both cores
come down from 100% though.
I now know that CTL-ESC would have brought up a System Activity window, but I
don't know if that would have done the trick at the time. Is there a hot-hey
combo that overrides everything, like ALT-CTRL-DEL does in Windows?
--
Terry Coles
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