[plug] Weird system pause - please help!

[Onno Benschop]

Any messages in dmesg or syslog?


On 23 May 2014 14:05, Marcus Holmes <mh at marcusholmes.biz> wrote:

> Using Debian XFCE, I've suddenly got a strange erratic system hang in the
> last week or so.
>
> I've done some sleuthing, and this bit of my .bashrc:
> HISTSIZE=1000
> HISTFILESIZE=2000
> causes a 20-25 second delay in the execution of .bashrc, during which
> every other process running also pauses.
>
> There's also the same delay at the end of the .bashrc execution and before
> the terminal prompt appears. Renaming .bashrc doesn't affect the delay
> before the prompt appears.
>
> Attempting to open a file manager on my home folder also causes this delay
> (but not if it opens on any other folder, but opening a terminal in another
> folder still causes the delay).
>
> Attempting to google the problem only takes me to endless tutorials on how
> to set a delay in bash.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
> My gut is telling me that there's a problem with my home folder that's
> causing the disk driver to spin/timeout, but I don't know how to verify
> this.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Marcus
>
>
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