Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:40:05 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, killing@multiplay.co.uk, kabaev@gmail.com Subject: Re: Odd performance problem (hitching) Message-ID: <200509081940.17216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200509080813.j888DU9k038428@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200509080813.j888DU9k038428@gw.catspoiler.org>
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--nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 08 September 2005 17:43, Don Lewis wrote: > That could be an important clue. Maybe one of the X apps that you are > running, like your mail reader, browser, or system status monitor. Try > running X with one of the lightweight window managers and just an xterm > or two. > > The 10 second interval doesn't make it sound like the problem is any of > the built in kernel tasks. It's more consistent with something that > runs every 10 seconds in userland that monopolizes some kernel resource > whenever it runs. Possibly, but I would expect to see some evidence in top of this. Also, during the 'lag' X drops or doubles up keypresses - it would suprise = me=20 to find that a userland app could make X do that very easily. I will try your suggestion though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDIA4J5ZPcIHs/zowRAtyMAJ4iIf5nYLkr6kzlo66UxSSmYmw8ggCgmieJ k++fxMWgDfLK3anfesZRxG0= =CFfq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3036654.abUImJTj8f--
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