Fedora floating screensaver stutters

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 17:04:51 UTC 2006


On 1/25/06, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:17:52PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:

>
> Note that the current kernel has a ton of really heavyweight debugging
> options turned on, as I'm trying to track down a number of really nasty
> bugs (hangs & random reboots).
>
> I saw a profile of the xscreensaver running xmatrix last week, and
> the majority of the time the CPU was spent in the kernel poisoning
> memory.  I'll get another build out with this stuff turned off soon,
> as basically any memory-intensive application is hurting real bad right now.
>

That would explain why my FC-devel box takes 40 seconds to fire up an
xterm and 30 seconds to respond to a key-press under xscreensaver when
the load average is listed as low and the box isnt anywhere near swap.
(It is an older Dell but FC4 had been nice on it.)




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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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