> Has anyone else experienced what I will call sporadic, jerky X response > in FC2? It seems that any time I have a background process running that > is even remotely taking to the CPU or IO, I have pathetic response in > X. > > My RH9 box and my FC1 box don't have this issue and they are slower > machines with less memory and older disk. Could it be related to the > fact that I'm not using the NVIDIA driver on FC2 and I am on the other > two? > > I quite reluctant to make the switch to FC2 without solving this issue. > It's quite annoying to have X become unstable every time I go to compile > something in the background. > > Hardware Setup: > Asus A7V600 > 1 GB RAM > 2 Samsung 120 GB SATA drives (RAID1 with LVM) > NVIDIA MX440 > FC2 fully updated > > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Brian Hanks > bhanks bhanks com Upon further digging, it looks like kblockd & kjournald are chewing up a ton of CPU. Any ideas? Thanks again, -Brian bhanks@xxxxxxxxxx