On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:35:10PM -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:
> > apps do this. It is not just xmms. This has been posted and discussed
> > here before. Also, I filed it with bugzilla, to no avail. I've got a

(Correction: I wasn't paying attention to which list I was posting. I
have not seen it discussed on this list (maybe it was before my time),
but I've seen it on other lists.)
 
> *Sigh*.  This doesn't appear to be a completely widespread problem, so
> I'm really curious in tracking down the components that are causing such
> a thing.  I've heard of perfect results with my motherboard, and I know
> the ethernet card is happy.  Perhaps various sound card or other drivers
> hurting things?  I dunno, this looks like a bit of a dead end at the
> moment.

Yes, I have posted this on many lists and NGs, with very few
responses. This is what I see with top, nothing else significant going
on, just me watching top:


First spike CPU0:

  PID USER  PRI  NI SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
  654 root  12   0 65068  52M  2664 S     0 21.9 41.5 125:22 X
  708 hal    7   0   348  284   228 S     0 11.2  0.2  28:16 wmnet
  741 hal    3   0   648  588   424 S     0  5.5  0.4  15:43 rxvt
 1270 hal    2   0  1208 1208   984 S     0  3.5  0.9  16:07 rxvt
  706 hal    2   0   484  364   276 S     0  2.9  0.2   4:02 wmmail
 4668 hal    1   0   824  824   664 S     0  2.9  0.6  16:47 wmSMPmon
  703 hal    2   0   428  260   200 S     0  2.7  0.2  59:14 wmsysmon
10576 hal    1   0   948  948   736 S     0  2.5  0.7   8:53 wmbp6
  700 hal    1   0   400  236   172 S     0  1.9  0.1   2:58 wmtime
17541 hal    3   0  1036 1036   820 R     0  1.1  0.8   0:01 top
  666 hal    1   0  2456 2292  1044 S     0  0.5  1.7   1:53 wmaker
 1234 hal    0   0   344  204   124 D     0  0.5  0.1   1:22 wmlm
13558 hal    1   0  2020 2020  1512 S     0  0.5  1.5   0:00 Eterm


A few seconds later CPU1:

   PID USER  PRI  NI  SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
  654 root  15   0 65068  52M  2664 S     0 17.5 41.5 125:29 X
  708 hal   12   0   348  284   228 S     0 12.1  0.2  28:17 wmnet
10576 hal    4   0   948  948   736 S     0  3.7  0.7   8:53 wmbp6
  741 hal    3   0   648  588   424 S     0  2.7  0.4  15:44 rxvt
  703 hal    2   0   428  260   200 S     0  1.7  0.2  59:14 wmsysmon
  706 hal    3   0   484  364   276 S     0  1.7  0.2   4:03 wmmail
 4668 hal    3   0   824  824   664 S     0  1.7  0.6  16:48 wmSMPmon
17541 hal    4   0  1036 1036   820 R     0  1.7  0.8   0:02 top
 1234 hal    1   0   344  204   124 S     0  1.1  0.1   1:22 wmlm
 1270 hal    1   0  1208 1208   984 S     0  0.9  0.9  16:08 rxvt
  666 hal    1   0  2456 2292  1044 S     0  0.5  1.7   1:54 wmaker
  707 hal    1   0   480  340   272 S     0  0.3  0.2   6:12 wmWeather
  472 root   0   0   512  312   228 S     0  0.1  0.2   0:02 sendmail


A few seconds later now --  between spikes (ie normal):

  PID USER  PRI  NI  SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
  703 hal   14   0   428  260   200 S     0  1.3  0.2  59:15 wmsysmon
17541 hal   12   0  1036 1036   820 R     0  1.1  0.8   0:02 top
  654 root  18   0 65068  52M  2664 S     0  0.3 41.5 125:30 X
    1 root   0   0   124   68    52 S     0  0.0  0.0   0:20 init
    2 root   0   0     0    0     0 SW    0  0.0  0.0   0:15 kflushd
    3 root   0   0     0    0     0 SW    0  0.0  0.0   0:06 kupdate
    4 root   0   0     0    0     0 SW    0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kpiod
    5 root   0   0     0    0     0 SW    0  0.0  0.0   0:04 kswapd
  236 root   0   0   360  336   264 S     0  0.0  0.2   0:00 pump
  349 root   0   0   208  160   112 S     0  0.0  0.1   0:03 syslogd
  359 root   0   0   460  164   112 S     0  0.0  0.1   0:00 klogd
  374 daemon 0   0   144  104    64 S     0  0.0  0.0   0:00 atd
  389 root   0   0   168  108    68 S     0  0.0  0.0   0:00 crond
  404 root   0   0   192  148   120 S     0  0.0  0.1   0:00 inetd
  419 root   0   0  1548 1212   560 S     0  0.0  0.9   0:03 named
  434 root   0   0   464  440   352 S     0  0.0  0.3   0:01 sshd
  449 root   0   0    84    0     0 SW    0  0.0  0.0   0:00 lpd


This was actually a while back with 2.2.14pre IIRC. BP6 with QQ BIOS
(now stable!). 

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