On 11/7/05, brullo nulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a window causes this to happen and the load only jumps on one processor, the other is idle or nearly so. When the nvidia driver is working correctly (assuming the driver is to blame) the load seems to be balanced evenly across both processors.
top is telling me that X is the guilty party. I can renice X to a lower priority and get some responsiveness back but again, there are times when everything performs as expected. The problem is intermittant although it happens more often than not.
> However, after about 10
> minutes the system load on one processor sharply increases to 100% when
> performing a simple task such as clicking on a button in Firefox, launching
> a new gnome-terminal window or clicking on the "Applications" menu at the
> top of the screen.
I have not understood if the system load increases to 100% during the
action of clicking and only during the action or if it goes up and
remains stable.
My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a window causes this to happen and the load only jumps on one processor, the other is idle or nearly so. When the nvidia driver is working correctly (assuming the driver is to blame) the load seems to be balanced evenly across both processors.
In the second case you should launch "top" from a shell and see what
process chews up your processor.
m.
top is telling me that X is the guilty party. I can renice X to a lower priority and get some responsiveness back but again, there are times when everything performs as expected. The problem is intermittant although it happens more often than not.
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