Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:25:30 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd performance problem (hitching) Message-ID: <1126200330.11226.1.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <4320507C.7010005@centtech.com> References: <200509080813.j888DU9k038428@gw.catspoiler.org> <200509081940.17216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4320507C.7010005@centtech.com>
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--=-a0KbR+YBb3dV9ZqHdDLB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:53 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Thursday 08 September 2005 17:43, Don Lewis wrote: > >=20 > >>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. > >=20 > >=20 > > Possibly, but I would expect to see some evidence in top of this. > >=20 > > Also, during the 'lag' X drops or doubles up keypresses - it would supr= ise me=20 > > to find that a userland app could make X do that very easily. > >=20 > > I will try your suggestion though. >=20 > I had a similar problem with XFCE4's battery/temp monitor applet. I=20 > think my freeze was about every 6-10seconds. I've also had a problem with gnome's battery monitor producing long "hitches" every several seconds. --=20 Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org --=-a0KbR+YBb3dV9ZqHdDLB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDIHQKHUdvYGzw6vcRAjh2AJwKp2Hy0YBjNPaGqZ/36B1TdcI+RACgg38k 3H5L8xgkDYvuKfiSeg9OeuI= =JEpd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-a0KbR+YBb3dV9ZqHdDLB--
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