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?
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adamw
