From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 14:53:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43E816A41F; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E90F43D46; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j88ErdH2071115; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:53:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4320507C.7010005@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:53:48 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050904 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" References: <200509080813.j888DU9k038428@gw.catspoiler.org> <200509081940.17216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200509081940.17216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1069/Wed Sep 7 10:08:51 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Don Lewis , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd performance problem (hitching) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:53:59 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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 > to find that a userland app could make X do that very easily. > > I will try your suggestion though. I had a similar problem with XFCE4's battery/temp monitor applet. I think my freeze was about every 6-10seconds. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------