On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:39:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a > > possible factor and see if there is a correlation. > > But if it was swapping you would see the HDD light being lit when you > were not doing any obvious disk activity. If you have not seen that then > it is not swapping.
The system box is under a desk and the HDD light is not easily visible. > I have CPU load monitors in both X and VT. Does your CPU load go up when > you get these difficulties? I have BOINC mopping up my spare cycles, so it's rarely below 100%. Stopping BOINC for a while might be a worthwhile diagnostic at some point. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101081331.12172...@youngman.org.uk