Hi, sorry about the late reply, but I didn't see the OP Holly Bostick wrote:
> Sorry that this will not be an extremely clear question, but I really > have no idea where to start, or what the problem is. that will just bring you in line with some of my questions :) > 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. A friend had a problem similar to this, it turned out to be acpi (or apm?) and his gnome battery applet. Every time the battery applet polled for battery level, the system froze for 1-2 seconds. So, you could try running a fail safe X session (no extras) and see if it still happens. If so, try something from the command line (no X) and see if it still happens... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
