I've been trying to chase down an extremely annoying problem I've been having. On what you could almost call heartbeat regularity, roughly once ever 2 to 3 seconds, my computer has been doing a micor-pause. One of the CPUs (AMD X2 3800+) spikes to 100% and everything freezes for a fraction of a second. You don't notice it unless you're watching a video file or playing a game... then it becomes annoying to the extreme.
I don't have zmd installed.. or beagle... so I started looking into the processes running... stopping or killing one and seeing if it made a difference. I traced it down to ruby. If ruby is running I get the regular CPU spike. Kill it... problem is gone. I can't uninstall ruby without pulling down Amarok as well. Not much of an option. I know that Ruby is a scripting language... beyond that not a lot... question is, how is it that Ruby is killing my performance so much. If it's a scripting language.. what is it doing that spikes my CPU to 100%... or what would be using it and spiking the CPU with whatever it"s doing. Amarok hums along just fine with Ruby dead and gone.. no functionality is lost in Amarok - that I can see. Has anyone else noticed this issue? Any suggestions or ideas what is going on? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
