Intermittent temporary GUI freeze in Ubuntu 11.10
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I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 for a month or so. In the last week it's started freezing randomly (every few hours or minutes). I can still move the mouse and switch to other terminals with ctrl+alt.
I thought this was purely a gui issue as I could continue entering commands (mouse clicks and keys) which seem to be processed once the system resumes (generally 30 seconds to a few minutes). I'm using gnome and metacity.
I can't identify anything in particular that triggers the freezes. Saving a file in LibreOffice causes the system to hang. I tried disabling most of the services I've installed (dropbox, autokey, etc.) but doesn't help.
Switching to another terminal and running top, the CPU column is shared equally among all of my processes (i.e. non-root). I have no idea what that signifies. My PC is unusable in this state.
CPU model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6700 @ 3.20GHz
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Sorry about the horrible formatting. Thanks for any suggestions...
Edit: I notice that my virtual computer (win7 64 on virtualbox) continues to respond most of the time during these 'freezes'
Edit2: I suspect this is something to do with UI priority being too low... but I don't know enough about linux to know how to address that.
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