Computer stalls

[NoOp]

On 07/13/2014 05:47 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 07:48 AM, rh wrote:
>> I have two problems with my Ubuntu box.
>> Fist one is, that sometimes there are continued disk ascesses for a long
>> time (this may take ten or twenty minutes) whilst the computer is almost
>> dead. I have tried to look with "top" if there are any processes which
>> takes an unusual amount of time, buit i could not find anything.
> 
> If it is a large disk, my guess would be that it is possibly xapian:
> <https://www.google.com/#q=ubuntu+update+apt+xapian+index>
> 
> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=update-apt-xapian&x=0&y=0>
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/655831>

Sorry, forgot to point out
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/655831/comments/34>
which references:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1152736>
(system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason)
which also might be your problem.

Have a look at top and iotop when it happens again & see if either of
those bug reports relate.

> 4 years later and still...
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