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. -- 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
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