Hi, Thanks for the reply.
* Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> [120602 09:53]: > Where is your /tmp mounted. Under the main filesystem. Are you thinking of suggesting I mount /tmp as a ramdisk? > Please post "mount" output. ~ % mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1498260k,nr_inodes=217054,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=300952k,mode=755) /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=5,barrier=1,data=ordered) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=601900k) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > > * John Magolske <listm...@b79.net> [120525 17:13]: > > > For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there > > > are frequent and regular "freezes" when typing or issuing commands > > > > Ok, so I opened up htop to look up & kill off non-essential daemons, > > adjusted vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio [1], tried > > changing and tuning the IO scheduler [2] (switched from cfq to > > deadline) ... all to no avail, still these infernal 3-second freezes. > > This makes things too complicated to resolve. Keep as much in default > otherwise others will not know how things are on your end. Admittedly, this was grasping at straws...all these changes were temporary & did not persist across a re-boot (I rebooted & checked). Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- 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/20120602194511.ga5...@s70206.gridserver.com