On Friday 19 December 2003 22.36, Steve Crane wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:07:59PM +0100, Rikard Johnels wrote:
When i move one around the sound from xmms chops.. but cpu is down at 10% so its not a "overload" problem in that sence.
Perhaps DMA is turned off. I have been unable to turn DMA on (yet) on my new machine and it behaves in a similar way. As soon as there is some fairly intense disk access the UI gets sluggish. -- Steve Crane http://craniac.afraid.org
The disk is not that heavily accessed.. I DO have 512M ram, and swap isnt used at all... rikjoh@sparhawk:~> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 449440 445076 4364 0 39160 162968 -/+ buffers/cache: 242948 206492 Swap: 1052248 0 1052248 X is eating a few CPU cycles tho.. Alot more then on 8.2 Especially if i move a few windows around. or simply move the mouse. It pops to 80-90% cpu in notime.. Its so anoying i am actually thinking om "downgrading" to 8.2 again... /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >