Re: CPU Jitters...

["Stephen D. Reindl" <sreindl@apci.net>]

Are you running X?. If so what window manager are you using? If it's KDE
you might try running Gnome or another window manager. I had a similar
problem with RedHat 9, I think. and an upgrade to a newer version fixed
the problem.

Just food for thought.

Steve

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:09, Tom Dison wrote:
> 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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