Cinnamon "burps" every about 30 seconds (part 2)

[SjoerdV]

Cinnamon "burps" every about 30 seconds (part 2)

[claudiux]

Maybe too many files in your Trash, and/or in ~/.cache subfolders. I cleaned them and Cinnamon is smoother.

[SjoerdV]

Maybe too many files in your Trash, and/or in ~/.cache subfolders. I cleaned them and Cinnamon is smoother.

That's definitely not the issue. Thanks for your suggestion, though

[DirkHaar]

I had this behavior with a former notebook due to a damaged USB port, it also can be generated by the so-called (keyboard) flexing problem on some Thinkpad models. Processor is halted the moment you attach a USB device, if damaged (cold solder joint problem) it may take longer. This happened on or XP (not use if also on Mint (17 or 18) then, but this shouldn't matter as it is a hardware interrupt.
In my case, I type up to three, four words before recognizing, the next one appeared as normal, quite annoying (though better than crashes).
You can check this by not using USB devices and simply let your computer play a video.
Use your keyboard then in an editor for further testing.

[SjoerdV]

I had this behavior with a former notebook due to a damaged USB port, it also can be generated by the so-called (keyboard) flexing problem on some Thinkpad models. Processor is halted the moment you attach a USB device, if damaged (cold solder joint problem) it may take longer. This happened on or XP (not use if also on Mint (17 or 18) then, but this shouldn't matter as it is a hardware interrupt.

In my case, I type up to three, four words before recognizing, the next one appeared as normal, quite annoying (though better than crashes).

You can check this by not using USB devices and simply let your computer play a video.

Use your keyboard then in an editor for further testing.

@DirkHaar, Thanks for your suggestion

I doubt it is a hardware failure in my case because of the exact 30 seconds intervals AND the fact this does not occur (ever!) when using Windows and XFCE (also using Xorg, mutter and lightdm).

There is a reason I created this issue in the cinnamon project, because I already eliminated most other possibilities 😉

[DirkHaar]

I missed exact 30sec if you wrote that...
Something WiFi related? A cronjob you forgot?

[SjoerdV]

I missed exact 30sec if you wrote that...
Something WiFi related? A cronjob you forgot?

@DirkHaar Nope, I run wired only (wifi is disabled). Also no cronjobs that could possibly trigger a full system interrupt. And I don't have any such job running every 30 seconds anyway (both user and root ones)

[claudiux]

Which version of linux?
uname -r

[SjoerdV]

Which version of linux?

uname -r

@claudiux Kernel: 6.1.0-18-amd64

Maybe the best way to close this issue is to have someone with intricate knowledge of the cinnamon codebase confirm there are no 'timed/triggered subprocesses that have system interrupt capabilities'. That would satisfy me I have to find the culprit of mentioned symptoms elsewhere.

Thanks again!