Thanks for informing us.

This sounds like a memory leak, but it shouldn't be... there was one in 2.8.10, but it's fixed in 3.0.0...

It might be, that your I/O-load gets quite high.
Could you let it run for some time and then do a "top" and post how much or your CPU is "waiting"?

How many files are you sharing?
Could you check if it also happens, when you share nothing?

And how much RAM do you have?

How much cache?

Best wishes,
Arne

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Thank you. I'll be happy to post all those stats. Unfortunately, now that I'm trying to repeat the condition, it isn't happening. But I'm sure it will some time soon, and I'll post back again with this info, once it does.

I do recall, however, that when this was occurring before, the rest of my system was not overloaded, and other apps started and ran without any problem ... including X apps. It was only the Phex app which was sluggish.

Therefore, my sense is that it has to do with threads being starved rather than memory/CPU being overloaded, but that's only a guess.

I'll be back once I have more data.