On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 20:35 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote: > On Saturday 30 October 2004 17:59, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > > I get this spike from the cpu every 5 seconds now that I'm on FC3T3. > > > > I can provide more info, but just for starters, has anyone else seene > > this? > > > > Is it the ext3 maybe? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > =Guy > > 19:58:34 up 1 day, 22:27, 3 users, load average: 0.93, 0.79, 0.64 > > Could yoy please provide a bit more description? What do you mean by a spike? > What kind of cpu and other hardware? Software versions of testing components > (if upgraded)? > > Tom > -- > Tom Taylor > Registered linux user #263467 ok, fire up gkrellm. watch "cpu" every 5 seconds I get a complete cpu spike to the top of the meter. when pc goes into screensaver mode, every 5 seconds, xscreensaver halts for 1 second, then continues. I am on a Dell C840 laptop, PIII700, 384RAM, 40GB, nvidia graphics (from FC3T3 not nvidia)...nothing special as far as testing, this is stock FC3T3. Thanks. > -- =Guy 22:42:36 up 2 days, 1:11, 3 users, load average: 1.78, 1.10, 0.93