[plug] Weird system pause - please help!

[Onno Benschop]

I'm on IRC in #plug. (freenode)


On 23 May 2014 14:23, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
>> http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
>> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.org.au
>> PLUG Membership: http://www.plug.org.au/membership
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Onno Benschop
>
> ()/)/)()        ..ASCII for Onno..
> |>>?            ..EBCDIC for Onno..
> --- -. -. ---   ..Morse for Onno..
>
> ITmaze   -   ABN: 56 178 057 063   -  ph: 04 1219 8888   -
> onno at itmaze.com.au
>



-- 
Onno Benschop

()/)/)()        ..ASCII for Onno..
|>>?            ..EBCDIC for Onno..
--- -. -. ---   ..Morse for Onno..

ITmaze   -   ABN: 56 178 057 063   -  ph: 04 1219 8888   -
onno at itmaze.com.au
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/attachments/20140523/4d67c442/attachment.html>