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: > > > >>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. I've also had a problem with gnome's battery monitor producing long "hitches" every several seconds. -- Eric Anholt eta_at_lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt_at_FreeBSD.org
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