For the past couple of months, I've been having an unusual problem when running Steam. When Steam is running, my system freezes for about 5 seconds every so often; there is no response at all from the system for that period, then everything goes back to normal, only to repeat after a certain amount of time.
The "active" periods can vary in time; sometimes they are seconds long, sometimes they last for minutes. The freezes appear to last about 5 seconds each time.
This continues even after I've closed Steam, but I suspect it's running in the background somewhere.
This issue has only arisen in the past few months; I have been using Steam before that without any issue. My gut feeling is it's a Steam update issue, or my OS is old -- I haven't got around to updating -- or both.
Any ideas?
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System: Host: thechaosengine Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.8.8 (Gtk 3.10.8~8+qiana)
Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
Machine: System: Micro-Star product: GE62 6QL v: REV:1.0
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16J5 v: REV:0.A
Bios: American Megatrends v: E16J5IMS.109 date: 10/27/2015
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-6700HQ (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 20726
clock speeds: max: 2601 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 900 MHz 3: 800 MHz
4: 800 MHz 5: 1100 MHz 6: 800 MHz 7: 1400 MHz 8: 900 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 191b bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.17.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: intel)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 950M/PCIe/SSE2
GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.57 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.19.0-32-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel Wireless 3165
driver: iwlwifi v: in-tree: bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros Device e0a1
driver: alx port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (14.6% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS721010A9 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 48G used: 13G (28%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 861G used: 116G (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.49GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 0.0:52C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 230 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 1239.4/7891.4MB
Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.2.28[/cpde]