I had a similar problem with Debian and my box the problem was when ever there was high disk utilisation, or running and access multiple windows and compiling the system, even xmms would lag on both environments the console and Xwindows. I upgraded the kernel from 2.4.18 to vanilla 2.4.20, then I patched 2.4.20. Still no resolve. I know most will consider this sacrilegious I grabed the source for mandrake 2.4.21 kernel and what do you know I have no issue with lagging. I can now run any application an experience no lag if you want to know what kind of system I have it;s an athlon 1200+ 128 meg of RAM 40 Gig hdd Geforce MX400
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:30:18AM +0800, Alex Balayan wrote: > > Recently I had the pleasure of installing the Slackware 9.0 on my IBM > > ThinkPad 600E (128Meg/RAM). Kernel 2.4.20 running XFree86 4.3.0. > > It seems X-Windows starts to run really slow when I use Mozilla. Allot of > > lag. TOP shows X and mozilla-bin processes peaking. > > I read somewhere that under certain conditions, some > linux kernels suddenly think X is not an interactive > process, and so reduces it's priority. > > You might try raising X's priority with 'nice', (even > though generally it's not a good thing to do) > > > Matt > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
