Re: CPU Jitters...

[Ken Keefe <kjkeefe@siu.edu>]

Yep, that was it... I switched from KDE 3.2 to Gnome. I'm not sure if I
am ever going to start liking Gnome... There were many things in KDE
that I liked. Oh well, I guess I will have to wait until someone writes
a package for KDE 3.2.3 and then I'll give that a try. I went to KDE.org
and thought about downloading the source and doing it myself, but it
looks damn complicated... Ah well, its good for me to learn a little
Gnome.

Ken Keefe


On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:31, Stephen D. Reindl wrote:
> 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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