Look at /var/log/messages and see what the system was doing when it
exhibited the symptoms that you described.
Tom
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
>
> I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when
>I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze,
> the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would
>continue that way for over an hour at times and then
> result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same
>problem with Mdk6.0 & Mdk6.1. What in KDE is
> causing the harddrive & CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse
>or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace?
>
> Seve
