Daniel Quinn wrote:
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 :-(
Shot in the dark here. Could it be that something is getting hot, or thinks it is getting hot, and slows down processing in a effort to cool things down a bit? I don't know if this is just laptops but I think there is a option in the kernel to do this. I don't use it but it may be worth checking into. Maybe it was turned on by default.
Dale :-) :-)
