On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 06:28, Brian Hanks wrote: > > 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 > I have seen this on my machine as well. p3 993 dual, scsi sym53c8xx, Matrox Millennium G450. Just seems to go away after a bit.
