I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd
configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone
here has run across in the past so here goes:
My computer is a pretty impressive AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ box
with 2GB of RAM and for the most part, I just use it to write code at work.
However, whenever I'm doing something CPU-intensive, two things happen:
* The load on the box goes up to 4
* The box intermittently wobbles from running at full-speed and dropping to
a crawl. This is best seen while watching Flash videos online,
compressing/encoding video, or compiling. Everything is fine for a few
minutes, then suddenly the rate of compiling/compression/playback etc.
drops to a crawl for about 1-3minutes, then back up to full speed.
I don't know why it's happening. I've tried various kernel options with no
change in behaviour. Outside of that though, I don't know what to try.
Suggestions welcome :-(
