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@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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss