Computer stalls

[NoOp]

On 07/08/2014 07:48 AM, rh wrote:
> I have two problems with my Ubuntu box.
> Fist one is, that sometimes there are continued disk ascesses for a long
> time (this may take ten or twenty minutes) whilst the computer is almost
> dead. I have tried to look with "top" if there are any processes which
> takes an unusual amount of time, buit i could not find anything.

If it is a large disk, my guess would be that it is possibly xapian:
<https://www.google.com/#q=ubuntu+update+apt+xapian+index>

<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=update-apt-xapian&x=0&y=0>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/655831>
4 years later and still...

> 
> The second thing is that often there are very large Java scrips working
> in Firefox which paralyze the computer. Once I tried to download such a
> script. It was a huge unformated JS-file, unpossible to read or
> understand what it does.

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-deobfuscator/?src=search>