Hi, On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:24:26 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, my system is running "fine" (no overt problems), but about > every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait > for 5-10 seconds while it does it before I can go further. Or the > display pauses, and I have to wait for the redraw , I can't tell which. It all gets down to the question whether it "stays" in Userland or in Kernel context in such a situation. If this happens in Userland, CPU utilization will probably be high in such a situation and it must be due to a high priority process when X is that much slowed down - which itself is already running at high prio. So I very much guess it's a kernel issue. Compiling a fresh new one would be my first advice. BTW, are you using any kernel based network filesystems (NFS, Samba, ncpfs), FUSE, or PPP? The trick here would be to simply selectively disable each one of these and watch if it keeps happening. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
