On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 06:15 +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote: > Unless your cpu is very hard worked nothing like that should ever > happen. I would have to time it fairly carefully to land a copy 'n' > paste on firefox opening. It sounds like > > 1. You have a wrong/borderline mouse protocol. > 2. You may have compile/configuration errors in your setup > 3. You probably have slow disk access, because the correct chipset is > not compiled in to your kernel. Hdparm -tT /dev/hda would check this. > 4. You may have a memory fault (Try www.memtest86.com) > 5. If none of the above apply, you need to post a lot of information. I > don't know if you have a mac, a laptop, usb, ps2 or serial mouse.
If it's triggered by load on the system, I'd pick the third suggestion. Last time I upgraded my home machine, I had issues along those lines due to the lack of chipset support - without DMA, anything that did disk access impacted everything else. Not fun at all. Simon.
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