On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:
> My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins
> with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a
> program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a window causes
> this to happen and the load only jumps on one processor, the other is idle
> or nearly so. When the nvidia driver is working correctly (assuming the
> driver is to blame) the load seems to be balanced evenly across both
> processors.
What are the specs of the machine? How much RAM when running X? ("free -t
-o -m" in an xterm will tell you). How much free disk space? Dual
processor machine? If so, SMP is enabled in your kernel? Is X using
software rendering?
Many variables here.
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