Major problem with Oneiric 11.10 freezing

[Tom Bell]

On 02/13/2012 11:02 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> /* snip */
>> ext4 is more solid than ext3. Stay with ext4 - it's not your problem.
>>
>> I go back t what I said before: what are those processes which have a 
>> (-)20 NI?
>>
>> Each one has a PID so you can go and see what exactly that process is 
>> all about.
>>
>> In a console/terminal, as root (ie sudo ......) type 'ps aux' which 
>> will list all your running processes owned by everyone on the system.
>>
>> Get the PID from the lists you produced which are on picpaste then 
>> find them on this list of ps aux and see what they are.
>>
>> BC
>
>
> Ummm, a slight correction here :-) .
>
> You will need to regenerate the list(s) on picpaste to see the latest 
> PID numbers for your currently running system - then use ps aux and 
> see what they are.
>
> BC
>
I see.
I did try iotop and did not see a whole lot, but, after looking at the 
options for iotop,
I tried "iotop -oa" and got a different picture.  See pictures below.

http://www.picpaste.com/iotop5-44HwJVlX.png
http://www.picpaste.com/iotop6-vdP5qXlK.png
http://www.picpaste.com/iotop7-QrgqY92J.png

These photos show firefox and jdb2/sda1-8 hogging the cpus big time.
It is not just firefox, although firefox was in this particular example.
Just about all the programs I have run have suffered the same problem.
And it is quite often intermittent.
Thank you!

Tom