On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 01:50, Adam Williamson wrote: > I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about > 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor > updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain > things, between which I can't find much of a link, seem to slow the > system down *massively*; the two I've noticed most so far are running > urpmi --auto-select, and saving a file with Galeon. When doing either of > these, the system becomes incredibly sluggish to respond - if I bring a > window forward, for instance, I can watch it redrawing in separate > stages, with several seconds between each, and the whole system just has > the very sluggish response you'd expect if 100% CPU were being used or > something. top does not report 100% CPU usage, though. Anyone else > seeing this? Any idea what the problem is?
OK, more info, this is a little weird...I've booted with kernel-multimedia to try that, and the problem is still there, but it's not as *bad* - the system response is still sluggish under file downloads, but not *as* sluggish as with the main kernel. I'm really confused now...:) -- adamw
