why is system getting stuck ...
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Tue May 22 17:53:47 MST 2018
Hi Joe,
I used to have the issue with JavaScript taking over my browser. Looks
like that is the same issue you are having. I used to use FireFox. Had
the problem all the time. I changed to chrome. Solved the problem.
Keith
On 2018-05-22 16:22, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Recently, I have begun to have recurring issues
> with my Linux Mint 18.1 system seeming to get "stuck"
> and I can't figure out why. I leave my system running
> 24/7 and have rarely had a reason or need to shut down.
> It has now been running (mostly fine) for 10 days.
>
> The recent problems have happened with both the chrome
> browser and the firefox browser (open at separate times).
>
> Various symptoms include the screen seeming to "freeze"
> sometimes with the cursor pointer disappearing, sometimes
> it changes to an "I" instead of an arrow pointer and is
> either unmovable on the screen or sometimes it can be
> moved, but at a drunken snail's pace.
>
> Sometimes the screen goes blank and if I walk away and
> come back after several minutes, the screen is restored
> and the cursor can be moved again.
>
> I have uploaded a screen shot and two text files as
> examples, including top.txt ... ps-ef.txt ... and a couple
> of screen shots. Can someone tell me what processes ps-ef
> show that should be or could be killed?
>
> Why does top-txt show two instances of chrome running ??
> Why does top whoc 4 users when 'who' shows only 3?
> And why are there 3 users when I am the only user?
>
> http://www.upquick.com/temp/freeze.jpg
> http://www.upquick.com/temp/top-txt
> http://www.upquick.com/temp/ps-ef.txt
>
> t420: who
> joe tty8 2018-02-28 14:39 (:0)
> joe pts/2 2018-05-22 15:43 (:0)
> joe pts/5 2018-02-28 14:40 (:0)
>
> top - 15:47:20 up 170 days, 5:29, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 1.01,
> 10.65
> Tasks: 245 total, 2 running, 235 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 5.0 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.6 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
> 0.0 st
> KiB Mem: 8056428 total, 3870692 used, 4185736 free, 134676
> buffers
> KiB Swap: 1951740 total, 1769720 used, 182020 free. 1161048 cached
> Mem
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
> COMMAND
> 10665 joe 20 0 3832944 239268 63624 S 11.9 3.0 6649:51
> plasma-desk+
> 15697 joe 20 0 511896 50588 35968 S 5.3 0.6 0:05.17
> konsole
> 10241 root 20 0 419892 148588 99172 S 4.0 1.8 1567:26
> Xorg
> 10659 joe 20 0 3247440 90844 18280 S 0.7 1.1 642:54.34
> kwin
> 18274 joe 20 0 1841712 181908 16 S 0.7 2.3 50:10.02
> chrome ***** (1)
> 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 75:00.93
> rcuos/0
> 487 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 464:58.53
> irq/44-iwlw+
> 1174 root 20 0 4388 224 100 S 0.3 0.0 112:21.59
> acpid
> 14574 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.42
> kworker/u16+
> 15757 joe 20 0 24964 3168 2568 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.81 top
> 31023 joe 20 0 1752576 36352 0 S 0.3 0.5 149:49.69
> chrome ***** (2)
> 1 root 20 0 37500 2096 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.22
> init
> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.73
> kthreadd
> 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 10:32.60
> ksoftirqd/0
> 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
> kworker/0:0H
> 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 136:59.67
> rcu_sched
> 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 23:30.73
> rcuos/1
> 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 44:27.97
> rcuos/2
> 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 25:53.54
> rcuos/3
> 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01
> rcuos/4
> 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01
> rcuos/5
> 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01
> rcuos/6
> 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01
> rcuos/7
> 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
> rcu_bh
>
>
>
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