Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-28 Thread Danial Thom
--- Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2006 01:02:35 -0400 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:18:36AM +0200, > Xavier Chantry wrote: > > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:14:13AM +0100, > Shawn wrote: > > > > I'm having a strange problem with c

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-28 Thread Shawn
OK, so I was using top to monitor what was going on inside the system and I noticed that it was in fact xorg taking up all the cpu, no matter what program actually was causing it. I searched around for nvidia xorg.conf settings and found a few things. I recompiled my kernel without agp and put the

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-28 Thread Shawn
On Sun, 28 May 2006 01:02:35 -0400 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:18:36AM +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:14:13AM +0100, Shawn wrote: > > > I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. > > > Every so often there s

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:18:36AM +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:14:13AM +0100, Shawn wrote: > > I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. Every so > > often there seems to be a pause where the system comes under heavy > > load for no apparent reason

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:14:13AM +0100, Shawn wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. Every so > often there seems to be a pause where the system comes under heavy > load for no apparent reason. If xmms was playing then I get a buzz sound > and the mouse pointer st

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Shawn wrote: I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. Every so often there seems to be a pause where the system comes under heavy load for no apparent reason. If xmms was playing then I get a buzz sound and the mouse pointer stops just for a split second, the same with mplay