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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Keyboard slows down
From:       Frank Holt <frankh () uwm ! edu>
Date:       2004-09-29 19:44:44
Message-ID: 200409291444.44142.frankh () uwm ! edu
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On Wednesday September 29, 2004 11:36, Tom Wesley wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:10 -0500, Frank Holt wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick response (daniel too).
> >
> > I should have said it in my original post but checking for something
> > hogging the CPU was the first thing I looked at.
> >
> > I ran top, xosview and I have System Monitor running all the time.
> > Nothing was using more than normal, and in fact, it happened while I was
> > typing this and currently Kmail is the only app I have running at the
> > moment.
> >
> > This one has really got me stumped. It would that the problem must lie in
> > the way the GUI communicates with the keyboard because the mouse works
> > fine and all windows, even remote shells are affected. But I really don't
> > know how to diagnose this problem further.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Frank
>
> I'd be guessing, but could it be some problem with the spell-checking?

It does it in konsole windows too. And the arrow keys in Mozilla.

It started doing it again as I typed the above line. I turned off 
spell-checking, no difference.

Top shows:
top - 14:44:05 up 8 days,  7:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.05, 0.05
Tasks:  94 total,   1 running,  93 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.8% us,  0.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 98.3% id,  0.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034684k total,  1003904k used,    30780k free,   160356k buffers
Swap:  2097608k total,        0k used,  2097608k free,   573624k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
26662 root      15   0  189m  31m 149m S  1.0  3.1  18:59.11 X
26790 frankh    15   0 26936  14m  23m S  0.7  1.4   1:51.60 kdeinit
26802 frankh    15   0  4128 2276 3380 S  0.7  0.2   0:43.32 xscreensaver
27632 frankh    15   0 29296  15m  25m S  0.7  1.6   0:00.64 kdeinit
27640 frankh    16   0  1768  928 1540 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.01 top

-- 
Frank Holt
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
I&MT Technical Services Senior
Dept. of Technical Solutions
Phone : (414) 229-2982
Fax   : (414) 229-6389
e-mail: frankh@uwm.edu
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