Hi,
My computer becomes idle about 10 seconds every 5 minutes approximately. Mouse, keyboard inoperative no matter application running. GNOME desktop.
Any help?
On 10/19/2011 08:16 PM, Mik12 wrote:
> My computer becomes idle about 10 seconds every 5 minutes
> approximately. Mouse, keyboard inoperative no matter application
> running.
-=WELCOME=- new poster
open top in a xterm and place it where you can see it…when the
computer “becomes idle” watch top–what is at the top of the list, what
percent of CPU is it using? keep watching top, does it change during the
idle time? if so, what becomes first, and what is its cpu usage…
report what you find…along with:
-did you just install openSUSE 11.4 (that is, it has been doing that
ever since you installed, OR did it work okay a while and then start it?
-have you run YaST Online Update (YOU) since install?
-have you rebooted since install and/or after running YOU?
-was openSUSE a first time Linux instal on a freshly formatted
partition? or was it an ‘upgrade’ over a previously existing openSUSE?
over another disto (which)? in either case did you retain all config
files in your /home?
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Sorry about my late reply but I’ve been checking with top in a xterm and computer became idle when wa percentage is 100%, even when cpu usage is almost nil.
top - 21:18:31 up 4:20, 5 users, load average: 0.13, 0.39, 0.41
Tasks: 185 total, 1 running, 183 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.3%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 83.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3044536k total, 965048k used, 2079488k free, 66408k buffers
Swap: 4803396k total, 0k used, 4803396k free, 568300k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2627 root 20 0 44796 33m 9808 S 9.3 1.1 4:47.01 Xorg
9265 miguelna 20 0 61412 13m 10m S 2.6 0.5 0:02.13 gnome-terminal
2945 miguelna 20 0 55956 15m 11m S 1.3 0.5 0:12.65 gpk-update-icon
9280 miguelna 20 0 2516 1000 736 R 0.3 0.0 0:02.07 top
This problem is present since I installed openSUSE 11.4 a first time Linux install on a freshly formatted
partition.
Thanks.
On 11/02/2011 09:36 PM, Mik12 wrote:
> top - 21:18:31 up 4:20, 5 users, load average: 0.13, 0.39, 0.41
> Tasks: 185 total, 1 running, 183 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
ok, i don’t see anything in the list of process top gives which seems to
be a problem…
BUT, i do see “1 zombie” process…i wonder what it is, but don’t know
how to tell you to find it…but, i guess if you move the zombie out
your machine will be ok…
maybe someone with a greater understanding of how to find/kill a zombie
will speak up!! while waiting on the guru, here are a few posts you can
read, which might help…
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforums.opensuse.org+kill+zombie
i’d guess a reboot would get rid of the current zombie, but you really
do need to learn what it is, and fix the problem…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
Hi again Denver,
thanks for your quick answer. It is not the zombie process which idle the computer, when not present the pc gets idle when %wa is 100%. What does %wa percentage means?
Thanks
On 11/10/2011 05:06 PM, Mik12 wrote:
> What does %wa percentage means?
i couldn’t answer you question so i used google…see
http://tinyurl.com/celeskj (notice how the search is phrased)
seems your cpu is fully busy ‘waiting’ for some IO (in-out) operation to
complete…
so, what might be having trouble completing an operation once each five
minutes? i doubt anyone here can guess what that is, but you might be
able to:
-is yours a laptop on a network of mixed systems (some SUN, some MAC,
some Linux, some MS)? and are you reading or writing to drives on those
other machines? have you put a sniffer on the net to see if there is a
collision problem, or or or or or …
-how many hard drives are attached, and how? any of those flaky (what
does SMART say)? what about their cables are of known high quality, or??
if you have a USB attached, see how it performs with it disconnected…
-how about heat? maybe you hard drive(s) are inordinately busy
re-calibrating for fluctuating heat inside the enclosure…
-what if you boot up and start up nothing…no browser, no email, no
music, no movie, no IRC, no chat, no torrent, no wireless, no wired
network, no nothing…and, wait 15 minutes and then start only top,
and move the mouse around…anything? [see, maybe you are just trying
to do too much stuff with the horsepower you have available to do it]
-start firefox (or your browser of choice) only…use it to read the
documentation on your hard drive, like
file:///usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manuals_en/manual/art.kdequick.html
or
file:///usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manuals_en/manual/cha.tuning.power.html
do you get any pauses?
so, start up networking and browse on the net, do the pauses begin?
if so, disable all firefox addons and try again…etc etc etc
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DD
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