Disk Sleep <SOLVED>

[longgraybeard]

I've been having a problem with my desktop freezing for some time now. CTRL Escape to the System Activity window shows under the CPU % column "Disk Sleep" for several functions, sometimes the plasma desktop and nearly always Firefox. Usually clicking on the item or right clicking and sending CONT signal frees things up, but I'm wondering if there is some way to keep the disk from going to sleep. This happens when I'm very active on the desktop, so I don't see why it would be going to sleep at all. Any ideas?

[longgraybeard]

After doing a little research further afield on the internet I found a thread on the OpenSuse forum that addressed this same issue:

http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/406191-disk-sleep-hang.html

It was suggested there to disable power saver settings, so I opened Desktop configuration=> System-> Power Management=> Edit Profiles; unchecked all boxes in each profile, and set "when the system is idle for" to "do nothing" in each profile as well. This seems to have turned the trick. I haven't had the desktop lock since doing this.

[Jaycoke]

Thanks @longgraybeard,

I was having a similar problem, this solved it.

I have a little one, so I have the screen set to lock after a couple of minutes.  When I unlocked sometimes the display would be all black except for a superkaramba widget, and unresponsive to 'alt F2' and 'ctrl esc' and similar key commands ('ctrl alt backspace' and 'alt tab' still worked) I finally had it happen when I had the system activity monitor open, and noticed that plasma was in disk-sleep. Which led me to your post here.
Also seemed to help with the resume speed of unlocking the screen.