[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 11.10 disappointment

[Quintin van Rooyen]

On 19 December 2011 10:50, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:

> **
> Hi Quintin,
>
> The problem recurred with Skype inactive. I am running on my other hard
> drive on 11.04 again.
>
> It freezes so solid that I can hardly do anything, it took about 5 minutes
> just to shut down, so I did not run anything in the terminal, simply becaus
> it is almost impossible to get anything going once the slowdown occurs,
> which seems to happen about 15-20 minutes after startup.
>
> I think that I will have to do a new clean install this evening.
>
> Hi Jan.

If you are interested in trapping the culprit, try running the below
command in a terminal while you are working. It repeats every five seconds,
and you can change that interval as you please.

while sleep 5; do top -b | head -n 10 | tee whatcrash.txt; done

I used tee instead of piping to the text file ( >> ) so that you can keep
an eye on what is going on in the terminal and possibly catch the culprit
and kill it.

It also outputs to a file with a .txt file extension that you can open it
with Windows notepad if you needed.

If your system crashes and you have to hard reset you can look at the last
few outputs to the text file to see what the resource hog was.

Hope this helps!



> Kind regards,
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
>
> On 19/12/2011 10:19, Quintin van Rooyen wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2011 10:01 AM, "Jan Greeff" <jan at verslank.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wesley, the problem recurred 30 minutes after booting on the drive
> with 11.10. It MAY have co-incided with the opening of Skype...
> >
>
> Hi Jan.
>
> When it slows down, what does the output op TOP tell you?
>
> You can also install htop which gives you a cleaner output.
>
> If you think skypevis the issue, launch it while running top or htop in a
> terminal and look for memory/cpu hogs.
>
> I had a previous (older) install where pulseaudio would run away with the
> CPU after Skype has been running for a while.
> >
> >
> >> Hi Jan
> >>
> >> i assume your older 11.04 also runs _unity_ and fine?
> >>
> >> In addition to Andre's advice, check your swap is online too. Use 'sudo
> swapon -s' in a terminal for this (no output means no swap).
> >>
> >> As your previous install is fine we can eliminate hardware (for now,
> unless a driver issue in the new install is involved).
> >>
> >> Doesn't Unity require hw acceleration? Im not too sure if it has a
> software fallback, so if 'classic' Gnome runs fine, then Unity is the issue.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: "Andre Rossouw"<andre at arnet.co.za>
> >> Sender:ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:25:52
> >> To:<jan at verslank.net>; Ubuntu South African Local Community<
> ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> Reply-To:andre at arnet.co.za,
> >>        Ubuntu South African Local Community<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 11.10 disappointment
> >>
> >> Sorry for the top-posting, my phone does not allow me to edit the
> message body :S
> >>
> >> Check the disk speed and the health of the disk you have 11.10
> installed on. From your message, it appears they are different disks?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> ------Original Message------
> >> From: Jan Greeff
> >> Sender:ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> >> ReplyTo:jan at verslank.net
> >> ReplyTo: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> >> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 11.10 disappointment
> >> Sent: Dec 17, 2011 22:12
> >>
> >> Hi there, some comments will be appreciated, please.
> >>
> >> I have upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, now my computer is running like an old
> >> woman trying to find out whether she can make better headway on crutches
> >> or a wheelchair.  When I boot on the drive where my old 11.04 is,
> >> everything is fine.
> >>
> >> I ran the gnome session fallback command and selected gnome classic,
> >> could this be the cause? The classic option on this version is also much
> >> different from the old one and very frustrating to work with.
> >>
> >> Jan
> >>
> >
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Quintin van Rooyen
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