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ubuntu 9.04 freezes when opening and attaching files

Asked by Melvyn

Hi everybody,

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 last week and I find that it freezes on occasions like when trying to attach a file to a message in Thunderbird or when trying to open an image with GIMP. Anyone having this problem?

Cheers,

Melvyn

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Wajih Letaief (mawale) said : 		#1

I am working with Jaunty from Beta Cycle and i hacen't this problem

you have to check the running process when freezing

run in a terminal "top" command and past the result here to let us have an idea

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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#2
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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#3

Thanks Wajih for your prompt reply.

This is the result:

top - 19:26:55 up 10:23, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.40, 0.32
Tasks: 149 total, 1 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.3%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1025648k total, 1005648k used, 20000k free, 19584k buffers
Swap: 3020180k total, 223412k used, 2796768k free, 540372k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 3324 root 20 0 194m 116m 62m S 4.6 11.6 11:11.99 Xorg
 4121 melvyn 20 0 139m 60m 8792 S 4.3 6.1 18:02.10 skype.real
 4114 melvyn 20 0 162m 65m 59m S 2.7 6.5 3:47.81 compiz.real
 5082 melvyn 20 0 36268 14m 9m S 2.0 1.5 0:00.84 gnome-terminal
 4115 melvyn 20 0 73900 19m 9240 S 0.7 2.0 1:17.60 gnome-panel
 2240 melvyn 20 0 164m 51m 22m S 0.3 5.1 0:16.82 firefox
 4116 melvyn 20 0 83744 21m 11m S 0.3 2.2 0:49.02 nautilus
 5101 melvyn 20 0 2448 1200 912 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.09 top
    1 root 20 0 3084 224 172 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.09 init
    2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.80 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 events/0
    7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
    8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/0
    9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0

Regards,

Melvyn

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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#4
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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#5

Dear Wajih,

Just to let you know that the system is working normally today (i.e. it doesn't freeze momentarily when attaching a file in Thunderbird or opening a file in Gimp.

However, I've been getting the Tracker Applet window appearing with the following message: "Tracker. There was an error while performing indexing: Index corrupted". I don't know if this is related to the problem mentioned above. I clicked on "Reindex all contents" and "OK" but nothing happens and the window remains there. Should I post it as another question?

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Best Ankur Banerjee (ankurb) said : 		#6

If you're facing problems with system speed and you think it's happening because of Tracker, then do this. In the upper right notification area, right click on Tracker's icon (a magnifying glass). Click on 'Indexer Preferences'. Switch to 'Performance' tab, and set the slider towards the 'Slower' end. This should reduce the amount of load Tracker puts on your system.

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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#7

Thanks Ankur.

I'm not sure that Tracker is affecting system speed. I mentioned the tracker issue because the window I mentioned above appeared this morning and wanted to provide information that might be useful to determine the problem.

Going to what you point out, I don't have Tracker in the notification area so I guess that means that it isn't active, right?

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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#8

Just to confirm that Ankur was right: Tracker was slowing down the system. I've seen other people mentioning the same issue. I uninstalled Tracker and the problem disappeared.

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Melvyn (melvyn-gattinoni) said : 		#9

Thanks Ankur Banerjee, that solved my question.

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Ankur Banerjee (ankurb) said : 		#10

Oops. I apologize for not responding to your last message. I'd flagged it in my inbox to be responded to, and then I forgot.

Anyway, glad to hear the issue is solved. In case you still want desktop search functionality but don't want to use Tracker, check out Beagle. It also comes with various different plugins like Tracker does. See if Beagle performs better on your system. You can search its packages from 'Add/Remove' and install them.