[Konsole-devel] [Bug 157965] konsole freezes when shell is busy

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-02-17 19:22 -------
> interesting that particularly the konsole app reacts sensitive to cpu loading

I don't think it is as simple as that.  CPU intensive tasks such as program compilation are run in the terminal all the time without causing any problems.  Linux is pretty good at keeping the system responsive under processor load.

If X.org or something else is using vast amounts of memory as well as CPU time then the system may end up swapping everything else out the hard disk which will cause the whole system to slow down.  If you run out of memory and there is nothing in place to kill off the offending processes then the whole system will grind to a halt.

Without really understanding the conditions under which the problem occurs I cannot make any changes to Konsole.