[plug] Weird system pause - please help!

[Onno Benschop]

Which weirdly is the Philadelphia Linux Users Group ;-)

I'm there anyway, I'm sure they won't mind ;-)

Ping me, owh


On 23 May 2014 14:26, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Onno Benschop
>>
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> --
> Onno Benschop
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Onno Benschop

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