Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I've been running gkrellm since forever and it has never done that. I > think I'd be for investigating the dma status of your hard drives > with hdparm as someone else already suggested. This is a new machine: a Sun dual Opteron box with

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2005 14:25, Glenn English wrote: >On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:40 -0600, Glenn English wrote: >> Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea >> what might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do >> something every 5 seconds? > >Hate to reply to

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 12:25 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:40 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > > every 5 seconds? > > Hate to re

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:40 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > every 5 seconds? Hate to reply to my own post, but it was gkrellm. Never mind... -- Glenn En

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread James Burke
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:40:11 -0600 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > every 5 seconds? > > -- > Glenn English > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I had the

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do > something > every 5 seconds? Well, there's a few ideas. It could be that, if you're using ext3, the journal is be

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Glenn English wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > every 5 seconds? Low batteries if it is wireless? Receiver too close to some other EM source like the monitor/speakers? A