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From: Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:44:58
Message-Id: dd0cef60510312038y3d30d2ecgf98e9f1d21432fbf@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts by Iain Buchanan
1 I have not read every single post in it's entierty. I have seen this lots
2 with Firefox - especiall with flash. It tends to actually be that the system
3 is swapping out.
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5 What filesyetem are you using?
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11 On 10/31/05, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
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13 > Hi, sorry about the late reply, but I didn't see the OP
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15 > Holly Bostick wrote:
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17 > > Sorry that this will not be an extremely clear question, but I really
18 > > have no idea where to start, or what the problem is.
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20 > that will just bring you in line with some of my questions :)
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22 > > Basically, my system is running "fine" (no overt problems), but about
23 > > every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait
24 > > for 5-10 seconds while it does it before I can go further. Or the
25 > > display pauses, and I have to wait for the redraw , I can't tell which.
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27 > A friend had a problem similar to this, it turned out to be acpi (or
28 > apm?) and his gnome battery applet. Every time the battery applet
29 > polled for battery level, the system froze for 1-2 seconds.
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31 > So, you could try running a fail safe X session (no extras) and see if
32 > it still happens. If so, try something from the command line (no X) and
33 > see if it still happens...
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35 > HTH,
36 > --
37 > Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
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