Sigh.. why is there always someone....
All I can say is.. if it were a "micro" pause, then how would you even notice it in the first place?
If you bloody read my original post you would have seen that I DIDN'T notice the pause unless I was playing a game or watching a video. The pause was so small that it did not interfere with normal day-to-day stuff.
Macro = that which is descernable by the body/mind. Micro = that which is too small to be seen/felt/etc without instrumentation (such as a microscope..)
Yes Mr. Pedantic those are definitions of the words (probably taken from that highly unreliable source everyone quotes as gospel truth, Wikipedia), but you have also demonstrated despite the fact that you've been programming since 1980 (what this has to do with micro and macro has yet to be stated) you have no understanding of the actual concepts. Sigh Since you're too busy with your diatribe to actually bother with something as mundane as understanding the concepts, I'll help you. Micro comes from a Greek root word that simply means small. In English it is often used to mean exactly that... small or very small. If you go look up the word micro in a dictionary... lets take Merriam Webster for example... micro is defined as "very small, involving minute quantities or variations" which was exactly the context I used the word in. But.. since you're obviously right... what with programming since 1980 and all, you had better go correct the people who use the words micro-computer since their computers are obviously too small to be seen without instrumentation. Oh, and the people who do micro-economics... and those poor people who drive micro-cars in the Netherlands... oiy, that must be a challenge! Cars so small you need a microscope to see them... wait... a microscope.. .aaaaahhh.. I'm caught in a spiral of illogic.
remember... what in the hell is a "micro pause" because I have never seen that term used before...ever...for anything.
I made it up... .so sue me. Don't bother replying Mr Kulkis. I filter pedantic twits. Back on topic... I resolved the problem. I discovered that the micro pauses were being caused by a failing hard drive. There was a bad sector on the drive, and the computer was (obviously) struggling with reading the bad sectors. It was co-incidental that the problem happened when Ruby was running... most likely because the script that was being processed needed to access some data on the bad part of the drive. I backed up the data, and took the failing drive out of service. Problem solved. No more micro pauses. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org