f14 gnome unusable

Brian Ericson bericson at ptc.com
Wed Nov 3 19:43:35 UTC 2010


Thanks for the reply!  If only...  It's acting as though it's under 
significant load, but top/iotop/etc. show a completely idle system.

On 11/03/2010 02:28 PM, stan wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:42:03 -0500
> Brian Ericson<bericson at ptc.com>  wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else encountered this?  Anyone know what to do to fix it?
> When I fresh installed F14, there were delays such as you mention on
> the gui with Gnome.  I checked top and iotop to see what was holding
> up the works.  And it turned out there were background jobs running.
> Most of those will complete if you give them an overnight, and you
> should only hit problems when they are updating after that.
>
> I changed the cron jobs so they would always defer to the gui, and
> things are OK now.  Used ionice as it seemed to be mostly io causing the
> problem.


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