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On 11/7/05, A. Khattri <ajai@××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: |
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> > My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike |
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> begins |
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> > with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening |
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> a |
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> > program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a window |
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> causes |
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> > this to happen and the load only jumps on one processor, the other is |
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> idle |
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> > or nearly so. When the nvidia driver is working correctly (assuming the |
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> > driver is to blame) the load seems to be balanced evenly across both |
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> > processors. |
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> What are the specs of the machine? How much RAM when running X? ("free -t |
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> -o -m" in an xterm will tell you). How much free disk space? Dual |
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> processor machine? If so, SMP is enabled in your kernel? Is X using |
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> software rendering? |
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Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon |
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2GB RAM |
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128MB GeForce 6600GT |
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Audigy 2 soundcard |
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free -t -o -m output: |
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gbur@minuteman ~ $ free -t -o -m |
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total used free shared buffers cached |
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Mem: 2009 1505 503 0 440 584 |
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Swap: 1953 2 1950 |
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Total: 3962 1508 2454 |
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SMP is enabled in the kernel as well as hyperthreading in the BIOS. As for X |
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using software rendering, to be completely honest I'm not sure and my guts |
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are telling me that is what is happening here. I believe I have enabled all |
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of the appropriate options in the kernel as well as /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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Many variables here. |
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