--- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Rawlins wrote:
>
> >I'd like to think that my Fedora Core 2
> distribution
> >doesn't behave this way. Using top and ps
> commands,
> >can't see any obvious culprits. I just disabled
> >/net/nfs automounts (/etc/init.d/autofs stop),
> which
> >I'd hoped were the problem. Sputter still there.
> >
> >I'm not quite at sys admin level with linux, so I
> >could probably ask the tech support (here at work)
> if
> >any 20-sec processes may be the problem. Not sure
> >they'll appreciate helping me to debug flight
> >simulator woes.
> >
> >
>
> I run autofs here ... that's pretty light weight so
> I wouldn't expect
> that to be the problem. Do you see HD activity that
> corresponds with
> the 20-sec interval glitch? You might take a look
> at your log files in
> /var/log to see if they are accumulating anything
> ... sometimes an
> overabundance of logging can slow down a system ...
> they might also
> point to some error or problem if there is excessive
> logging. I'd also
> try quiting as many other apps as possible to see if
> you can make the
> problem go away ... quit your web browser, email
> client, word processor,
> etc. If your desktop has some sort of toolbar
> (likely) try killing all
> those little applets. (You may want to create a
> stripped down dummy
> account so you don't hose your own configuration.)
> CD player? USB
> devices? etc. Start stripping down the system piece
> by piece and see if
> you can get rid of the 20-sec glitch with a totally
> stripped down
> system. Then you can start adding things back in to
> see if you can find
> the culprit.
It seems to be something related to graphics. First,
the sound sputter doesn't seem to occur when C172 is
stationary on the runway. I then moused over to the
red hat on toolbar (KDE desktop). As the menu options
opened up, I hear the sputter. Then as the mouse
moves over menu options with arrow, and other menu
options open to the right, some more crackle. Looks
like as images, although small, appear on my LCD
monitor, some discontinuity occurs, manifested by
change in sound of the engine (memory access?). Recall
I'm running NVIDIA 32MB GeForce2 video card.
I should add that the pitching up/down was vitually
non-existant when I made a short flight in the pattern
around SFO. Maybe minimizing the number of active
windows and using only 1 desktop (have 4) helps.
Funny, when I first started using FG 6 months ago on
this system, I thought my setup was top notch.
Mike
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