> I see the same thing on a BP6 for sometime now (many months), and
> seems to be strictly SMP related. For me, many of the windowmaker dock
> apps do this. It is not just xmms. This has been posted and discussed
> here before. Also, I filed it with bugzilla, to no avail. I've got a
Agreed, I've seen it with many such applications, including things like
an unmoving wmint. This just seems strange, as I have quite a few
aquaintances that have had no such problems and recommended SMP systems.
> load monitor on my dock, and I just watch it cycle through every few
> minutes. It does not seem to effect performance (that I can tell), and
> I have wondered if it is maybe a phantom load.
I've been using a couple of load monitors and watched the cycle run
through, but I've definitely noticed a lot of slowdown. Compiling
source on a console works very nicely, but this isn't ideal for a
desktop system. The system performs far more responsively and nicely on
a uniprocessor kernel setup, and I can play my beloved games too. (Q3A,
UT, and Heretic 2 all suffer from running both processor through the
roof and hosing the game)
> For me, watching this with xosview, or wmBP6, the processors will
> spike one at a time with a brief pause in between. According to
> xosview, they actually hit 100% load (per individual CPU - 50% system
> load). Then a several minute pause, then the cycle repeats. I have
> watched for an answer to this mystery in many places for some time
> now, and have yet to find it.
*Sigh*. This doesn't appear to be a completely widespread problem, so
I'm really curious in tracking down the components that are causing such
a thing. I've heard of perfect results with my motherboard, and I know
the ethernet card is happy. Perhaps various sound card or other drivers
hurting things? I dunno, this looks like a bit of a dead end at the
moment.
Brian J. Conway
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