Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

[Roy Wright]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
> Most KDE4 itself is always
> responsive, but not the panel. Konqueror, Kontact and such sometimes freeze
> when I open a new page/mail. In race cases konqueror also freezes while
> displaying a page, after parts were already rendered.

I replaced my media lan's router the other day with a
gentoo+dnsmasq+shorewall homebrew and hit this behavior.  My observation
is that they freeze when you loose internet connection.  Two quick
tests:  1) pull you internet cable and see if that duplicates the
behavior you are experiencing; 2) try to ping an internet system while
you are experiencing the problem.

HTH,
Roy