Experiencing intermittent hangs?

[Gaiko Kyofusho]

I seem to be experiencing intermittent/temporary (few secs-min) hangs on/between VMs. That is, I can be working on an app in one VM, it will begin to hang, to I usually switch to another VM and work on that for a min or two then come back to the hung VM and it seems to work again. While this is happening in _many_ applications, it seems to be an issue more with chromium. I was thinking this might be related to memory as I am also getting errors about not having enough mem to open up a VM (so I usually close a VM or two then I can)(for the record I have the max my laptop will take, 16gb, the default Qubes install doesn't include swap space does it?)

Anyway, thoughts on this would be appreciated as its really not helping my workflow.

[Chris Laprise]

Although I don't use chromium, I'm experiencing temporary graphics
freezing as well. For example, if I start to drag a file from nautilus
onto another app the dragged icon may freeze in transit along with
nautilus. Sometimes it can stay frozen for 30 sec. or more.

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[mver...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 9:37:35 AM UTC+8, Chris Laprise wrote:
> On 05/05/2017 09:15 PM, Gaiko Kyofusho wrote:
> > I seem to be experiencing intermittent/temporary (few secs-min) hangs
> > on/between VMs. That is, I can be working on an app in one VM, it will
> > begin to hang, to I usually switch to another VM and work on that for a
> > min or two then come back to the hung VM and it seems to work again.
> > While this is happening in _many_ applications, it seems to be an issue
> > more with chromium. I was thinking this might be related to memory as I
> > am also getting errors about not having enough mem to open up a VM (so I
> > usually close a VM or two then I can)(for the record I have the max my
> > laptop will take, 16gb, the default Qubes install doesn't include swap
> > space does it?)
> >
> > Anyway, thoughts on this would be appreciated as its really not helping
> > my workflow.
> >
>
> Although I don't use chromium, I'm experiencing temporary graphics
> freezing as well. For example, if I start to drag a file from nautilus
> onto another app the dragged icon may freeze in transit along with
> nautilus. Sometimes it can stay frozen for 30 sec. or more.

Seeing same problem here. I think it is a known issue [1] related to some recent updates. I don't use chromium either, but there is a related issue for that too [2].

[1] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2772
[2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2765

[Patrick Bouldin]

On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 9:16:04 PM UTC-4, Gaiko wrote:
> I seem to be experiencing intermittent/temporary (few secs-min) hangs on/between VMs. That is, I can be working on an app in one VM, it will begin to hang, to I usually switch to another VM and work on that for a min or two then come back to the hung VM and it seems to work again. While this is happening in _many_ applications, it seems to be an issue more with chromium. I was thinking this might be related to memory as I am also getting errors about not having enough mem to open up a VM (so I usually close a VM or two then I can)(for the record I have the max my laptop will take, 16gb, the default Qubes install doesn't include swap space does it?)
>
>
>
> Anyway, thoughts on this would be appreciated as its really not helping my workflow.

By chance are you logging into the same Google Account in the different VMs? I have noticed this same behavior, but only when logged into the same Google account. In fact, many times something causes the session to disassociate with the browser and hang - I suspect there's something in the network part of the hypervisor that is causing google to get confused as to which VM should be authorized, etc - as the same IP is being used. Or, something in this regard.

If I close out of the Google Sessions each VM seems to work fine - but, when this does happen it surely causes the VM to hang up for a very long time.

Patrick

[cubit]

6. May 2017 01:37 by tas...@openmailbox.org:

On 05/05/2017 09:15 PM, Gaiko Kyofusho wrote:

I seem to be experiencing intermittent/temporary (few secs-min) hangs
on/between VMs. That is, I can be working on an app in one VM, it will
begin to hang, to I usually switch to another VM and work on that for a
min or two then come back to the hung VM and it seems to work again.
While this is happening in _many_ applications, it seems to be an issue
more with chromium. I was thinking this might be related to memory as I
am also getting errors about not having enough mem to open up a VM (so I
usually close a VM or two then I can)(for the record I have the max my
laptop will take, 16gb, the default Qubes install doesn't include swap
space does it?)

Anyway, thoughts on this would be appreciated as its really not helping
my workflow.

Although I don't use chromium, I'm experiencing temporary graphics freezing as well. For example, if I start to drag a file from nautilus onto another app the dragged icon may freeze in transit along with nautilus. Sometimes it can stay frozen for 30 sec. or more.

I started a thread about this back in April.  Apparently a known issue with a fix due some time

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/appvm$20window$20freezing|sort:date/qubes-users/q1w05yyCI2k/XWpDFWDrBwAJ

[cooloutac]

Yes you are not alone. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/chrome$20chromium$20freezing%7Csort:relevance/qubes-users/1oL5qyMdFfo/JkECo_bkBQAJ

[cooloutac]

instead of leaving the vm and coming back temp fix is to start another app in the frozen vm, like a terminal and it will unfreeze.