The machine has beome barely responsive; things like the kickstart menu button, or right-click on the desktop, or clicking on the options button on the panel produce no effect - nothing. I don't remember doing anything in particular that could have caused this. If I run top, it says that plasma-desktop is using 100% of my CPU. If I long in as a different user, the problem's not there, so this specific to my regular user configuration. I notice that there are also three processes called 'migration' running - could those have anything to do with this problem? None of them seem to be using any measurable CPU resources...
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Claude Jones wrote:
The machine has beome barely responsive; things like the kickstart menu button, or right-click on the desktop, or clicking on the options button on the panel produce no effect
- nothing. I don't remember doing anything in particular that
could have caused this. If I run top, it says that plasma-desktop is using 100% of my CPU. If I long in as a different user, the problem's not there, so this specific to my regular user configuration. I notice that there are also three processes called 'migration' running - could those have anything to do with this problem? None of them seem to be using any measurable CPU resources...
more on this - I logged in to the machine using Gnome, and it's behaving normally - googling this issue produces lots of hits, but little help - most point at misbehaving applets, but can anyone suggest a means to troubleshoot this?
On Sunday 13 March 2011 16:27:00 Claude Jones wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Claude Jones wrote:
The machine has beome barely responsive; things like the kickstart menu button, or right-click on the desktop, or clicking on the options button on the panel produce no effect
- nothing. I don't remember doing anything in particular that
could have caused this. If I run top, it says that plasma-desktop is using 100% of my CPU. If I long in as a different user, the problem's not there, so this specific to my regular user configuration. I notice that there are also three processes called 'migration' running - could those have anything to do with this problem? None of them seem to be using any measurable CPU resources...
more on this - I logged in to the machine using Gnome, and it's behaving normally - googling this issue produces lots of hits, but little help - most point at misbehaving applets, but can anyone suggest a means to troubleshoot this?
Do you by any chance have a very large IMAP account? I know you've been around for years :-) so it wouldn't be surprising. I don't know what happens if you interrupt migration, but I have definitely seen some people say that if you have a huge IMAP set-up you would be best running the migration overnight.
Anne
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 13 March 2011 16:27:00 Claude Jones wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Claude Jones wrote:
The machine has beome barely responsive; things like the kickstart menu button, or right-click on the desktop, or clicking on the options button on the panel produce no effect - nothing. I don't remember doing anything in particular that could have caused this. If I run top, it says that plasma-desktop is using 100% of my CPU. If I long in as a different user, the problem's not there, so this specific to my regular user configuration. I notice that there are also three processes called 'migration' running - could those have anything to do with this problem? None of them seem to be using any measurable CPU resources...
more on this - I logged in to the machine using Gnome, and it's behaving normally - googling this issue produces lots of hits, but little help - most point at misbehaving applets, but can anyone suggest a means to troubleshoot this?
Do you by any chance have a very large IMAP account? I know you've been around for years :-) so it wouldn't be surprising. I don't know what happens if you interrupt migration, but I have definitely seen some people say that if you have a huge IMAP set-up you would be best running the migration overnight.
I wrote this several hours but sent it using the wrong account so it never made it to the list...
Well, Anne, I don't have any IMAP accounts, but, whatever ailed me has completely cleared itself up. One hour ago, I had a stone cold machine in screen saver that would take minutes to wake up and show the screen saver, and would not get past that to show me a login dialog; finally, I Ctl-Alt-Backspaced out and logged back in to Gnome - that worked fine, even when I opened KMail; after, spending some time there and being quickly reminded of why I prefer KDE, I logged out and logged back in to KDE (failsafe mode); that worked perfectly, and I couldn't tell what was different, but, CPU usage was under 5% for every running process, and KMail worked fine - finally, I logged back out and then back in to KDE, and now the machine is fine and all processes are still running under 5% - so, I'm not sure what this was all about, but, it seems to have been cured without intervention on my part...if it was some 'migration' process, it took over 18 hours. But, the CPU usage was plasma-desktop, not KDEPIM or anything related to it...those migration processes that were shown to be running in Top were all running at 0% CPU usage...
Was there a recent update that required something to be migrated? I remember the one going from KDE3.5 to 4 (was that it?), that took a long time about a year or so ago...
On Monday 14 March 2011 01:44:59 Claude Jones wrote:
Was there a recent update that required something to be migrated? I remember the one going from KDE3.5 to 4 (was that it?), that took a long time about a year or so ago...
Who knows? I hate mysteries, but some things are not for human understanding ;-)
Glad it's sorted now, anyway
Anne
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