On Sun, August 12, 2012 1:13 pm, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:45:03PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> Yesterday I had to reboot my machine. >> Cleaning house, I had dislodged the plug for a power strip that powered >> the computer, monitor, and printer. >> >> Now, I am seeing very odd behavior. >> Iceweasel hangs forever on some of the simplest tasks, such as loading a >> static html page. >> Not only that, but when it does so, other tasks on my machine are held >> up. For instance, if I have iceweasel loading a page on my first >> workspace, and try to load a message in mutt on another, mutt waits for >> iceweasel to finish what it's doing before proceeding, which was not >> previously the case. >> I find this very, very odd. > > I've suffered the same problem, very annoying. A ps indicates its > plugin-container, have to wait for ages to get mouse response so I can > quit iceweasel.
Yes, the only thing I see in htop, for instance, that seems odd is way too many flash-plugins running, or something. > > It seems to happen sometimes If I leave iceweasel open for a long time. > I have installed noscript (highly recommended!) but am not sure if it is > a script causing it. Once there was a message about a script being busy, > which tied up iceweasel and that was before I installed noscript. There > was a dialog box indicating this. > >> For instance, the machine will be using 2% of CPU and 4% of ram, but be >> completely dormant until iceweasel succeeds in downloading a page. >> This machine is a 2.8ghz x 4core AMD APU with 16gb of ram, too, so I'm >> not exactly lacking in resources. > > Mmmm, is this from ps? > Well, I can see cpu and memory use in a small conky I keep running, but I was also looking with htop (not ps). These should all show about the same thing, anyway. I mean, htop and ps will show processes, whereas conky only gives % of cpu/ram usage, but otherwise. >> The only anomalies I have noted in dmesg, etc., are that some sectors of >> my hdd are not reading correctly, or something. >> A file system check forced on a second reboot yesterday failed, which is >> disconcerting, but I'm not certain what to make of that. > > eeek! Grab any data you need, quick. I ran a back-up since my initial message. Manually running fsck now. ./tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time -- 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/21fc286397eb98d61c62cfe7169886db.squir...@tonybaldwin.org
