OS "hiccups"

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:07 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm running Fedora 10 and have been very happy with it.  Within the last
> week, however, the OS seems to be experiencing momentary "hangups" of
> some sort where all activity stops for 10 or 15 seconds.  The cursor
> won't move, web pages won't scroll, etc.  This occurs not only in
> Firefox, but generally regardless of what I'm doing. 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
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crystal ball cloudy...open a console session and run top and monitor to
see if something spikes CPU or Memory on a periodic basis.

Personally, I have trouble when I've been viewing PDF's within Firefox
using the AdobeReader plugin and memory gets out of control.

Craig