A strange (and old) problem with urxvt

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:22:18PM +0100, Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo at o2.pl> wrote:
> Sometimes, for no apparent reason, urxvt first stops accepting input and

This really sounds like a problem outside of urxvt, such as faulty disk,
ram, running out of ram or less arcane and more real reasons.

What you should do in such cases is attach an strace or equivalent for
your operating system and look at what urxvt does.

> that time I try to start xterm, it acts same way.

Well, that somehow settles it that its a systemwide problem.

> The main problem with this problem is that I can't reproduce it at will.
> Any thoughts ?

Could be heavy swapping, too, i.e. if you cannot see swapping activity and
everything most freezes. Or something else entirely.

With the scarce info available, its hard to tell.

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