Symptoms appear as freezes of 2-4 seconds and possibly a spike in CPU usage. Keystrokes and mouse motions made during the beginning of this period are still reflected after the lock-up terminates. Has anyone else experienced this problem? This is actually a fairly common SuSE problem in my experience (and a
On Sunday 20 August 2006 10:41, Jonathan Puthoff wrote: little annoying). I noticed this kind of thing (9.0, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0) running OpenOffice forinstance... the whole desktop freezes for about 2-3 seconds after the first three or four letters are keyed into the word processor... keep typing and eventually it unfreezes and catches up... I have also noticed this behavior in terminals. (I'm not brave enough to try 10.1 yet... will probably wait for 10.2 to be thoroughly tested) A similar related problem is that sometimes keys become 'typo-matic' forever... like the interface received the key press but never received the key release. I have noticed this on different machines and at different version levels... but very infrequently... just enough to be annoying. I suspect that the behavior is directly proportional to the extent that Java has been used for development. (ok, mostly kidding) The 'objects' on the desktop are not communicating properly... or there is some kind of nasty resource contention or other overhead thing going on... I wish someone would fix it. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net