Hello, am Dienstag, 24. August 2004 15:33 schriebst Du: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:08:08PM +0200, Robin Haunschild wrote: > > > SETUP: Sarge with kernel 2.6.8 on Toshiba Satellite M30 > > > > Sorry, I don't know this model. Which CPU, how many RAM, ... does is > > have? How large is Your SWAP-partiton? > > CPU = Centrino 1400 MHz > RAM = 512Mb (KDE Info Center says 504) > SWAP = 494 Mb > If I remember correctly, the RAM is split in two 256 pieces. > > > > PROBLEM: while typing (both with X and on console) sometimes the > > > characters stop being displayed, and they reappear after a little way. > > > Very often one character is displayed a bunch of times, as in > > > > > > /wrtiw/ret.sdfkjsbdf.vkmsb................................dkgu;veo8rvcw > > >;er9 vcwn'ernw89vcn'p9cw8e'rp9 > > > > > > > > > SYSLOG: > > > > > > When the keyboard has the problem, /var/log/syslog gives reports: > > > > > > Aug 24 07:54:58 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 > > > reports too many keys pressed. Aug 24 07:55:01 localhost last message > > > repeated 3 times
I have this message sometimes on my Athlon-700, when my RAM is full and it needs to swap. Do You have DMA-acceleration enabled? On my Athlon-700it is disabled because of problems with my chipset. > > How high is Your system load when this error occurs? > > Itttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt (!) just occured and the average CPU Load > accoarding to KDE System Guard is extremely low, close to 0. Moreover the > load was less than 20% for the last 30 seconds (I am no expert, but I hope > what I am saying is correct). This problem occurs very often, while I What does top say when it occurs? On my Athlon-700 KMail needs many resources. > usually have only simple applications running, like X, KDE, Emacs and > Konqueror. No strange processes at all, I guess. KDE is heavy but IMHO a Centrino 1400 should be able to handle this. ;) > Right now KDE Info Center says: > > Physical memory: 10% (=51 Mb)free, 59% disk cache, 22% application data, > Swap space: 76% free, 23% used. > > Do you have any idea? Except my system load idea, no, sorry. Greetings, Robin -- Robin Haunschild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tuxschild.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] .''`. Ha Psi ist gleich Eh Psi : :' : -Niemals aufgeben, niemals kapitulieren- `. `'` *Linux* - apt-get into it `- Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word-, Excel- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. Siehe http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html
