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?
Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon
2GB RAM
128MB GeForce 6600GT
Audigy 2 soundcard
free -t -o -m output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -t -o -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2009 1505 503 0 440 584
Swap: 1953 2 1950
Total: 3962 1508 2454
SMP is enabled in the kernel as well as hyperthreading in the BIOS. As for X using software rendering, to be completely honest I'm not sure and my guts are telling me that is what is happening here. I believe I have enabled all of the appropriate options in the kernel as well as /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Many variables here.
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