Re: [orca-list] Orca becomes unresponsive periodically on Linux Mint 9

[Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com>]

Hi,

Do I understand correctly that if you let orca sit it will become
responsive again?  Say if you use orca for 10 minutes then when it
becomes unresponsive walk away for a while and come back is it still
hung or is it still stuck?  The first thing I'd check is is what is the
processor doing is it maxed out on something?  I'd suggest running
uptime and ps -e -o %cpu,cmd | sort -n to see what is running.  You
probably want to run these piping the output to a file just after orca
becomes unresponsive, then restart orca and read them.  uptime just
tells you the total usage of the cpu and the second should give you a
list of processes sorted by the amount of cpu time they're taking.  I
find this problem interesting, but don't have any immediate ideas.
You may also learn something interesting by doing ps -e -o %mem,cmd |
sort -n to see what processes are using memory.

Trev
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:51:52PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> Anyone know what might be happening here? I'm trying out Linux Mint
> 9 and am just about ready to switch back to Ubuntu. I got Orca
> installed and running here, but every 5 to 10 minutes, it becomes
> almost completely unresponsive for about 3 to 5 minutes. So far, the
> only thing I've been able to do is to restart Orca 10 times or more.
> Eventualy, this seems to cause the unresponsiveness to go away more
> quickly than just letting it run. It then works for another 5 to 10
> minutes, at which point it hangs and the cycle starts over.
>
> Someone told me that Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and is easier to
> use, so I thought I'd give it a try. Being based on Ubuntu, I didn't
> think I'd have problems with Orca any more than on Ubuntu. Is there
> anything installed on a vanilla Mint system that could cause this
> problem? I seem to notice it most while Pidgin is running, but
> Pidgin in combination with Orca never gave me a bit of trouble on
> Ubuntu, all the way up through Maverick alpha2.
>
> I kinda feel like I'm distro hopping just a little, but I do like to
> try different things and report bugs and request improvements so
> that I can make the OS even more usable for everyone. Since I'm not
> really that much of a programmer, it's basically my way of
> contributing to the community. Thanks for any help anyone can give
> me.
>
> ~Kyle
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