Re: CPU Jitters...

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

Wouldn't ps or top show the process that is causing
the CPU spike. Often it is a driver issue, and you
will see the soft_irq (that's not the exact name of
the process, but it is something like that) show a
huge cpu usage because of a cranky driver.

--- David Glass <systems@davglass.com> wrote:
> We have 2 machines in my department running Mandrake
> 10 and they both
> act the same way..
> 
> Slow keyboard reaction, slow net connections, in
> general it just seems
> to lag quite often.
> 
> We haven't been able to find the problem as of yet,
> so we are in the
> process of changing the distro on them.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:32, Ken Keefe wrote:
> > So I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official on my
> laptop. It is a 2.2 GHz P4
> > with 512megs of ram and a 32 meg AGP Radeon video
> card. When I was
> > running 9.2 I experienced absolutely no
> performance problems. 
> > 
> > However, since I have installed 10.0, I have been
> experiencing some
> > keyboard lag about once every 10 seconds. I will
> be typing something and
> > all of a sudden the keyboard won't respond for a
> split second and when
> > it does return to me, it usually has printed two
> of the last characters
> > I just typed. It is really strange. It makes it so
> I can't write without
> > constantly having to make sure that I don't haave
> dupplicatee
> > lettters!!! 
> > 
> > Also, I have KSysguard running in the background
> and my cpu usage has
> > many spikes one right after the other. Not sure if
> that helps or not.
> > Can anyone offer suggestions for tracking down
> what the problem is? Is
> > it maybe possible to increase the priority of
> keyboard input?
> > 
> > Any help wouldd be greatly appreciated! 
> > 
> > Ken Keefe
> > 
> > 
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