ok, you'll never believe this... it *was* gkrellm itself, however this was hard to find out... because, if I unloaded gkrellm I still saw a spike in top. so I went thru one by one of every option in gkrellm. and *who* decided my battery status needed to be updated every 5 seconds *exactly*??? not me. anyway, I have it set much higher now, spike is gone. weird thing though, that killing gkrellm didn't take the spike away. only when I changed the battery status monitor timing did the spike finally die. oh well, another one solved. thanks guys. On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:32 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 18:03 -0500, David Malcolm wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 17:36 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:51 -0500, David Malcolm wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:14 -0600, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > > > > > <SNIP> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Interesting. I changed it with "s", to .5 seconds. > > > > > > The two things that pop up every 5 seconds are gkrellm itself, and > > > > > > something vaguely named gtk2_applet2. > > > > > > > > > > > > So what is gtk2_applet2? > > > > > > If it's an applet couldn't it be a java-something? > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm, curiouser and curiouser. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > =Guy > > > > > > 16:23:31 up 7:01, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 0.49, 0.88 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > let me revise that, sorry, it's gtik2_applet2 > > > > > > > > That's the Stock Ticker panel applet. Is it running? What kind of > > > > settings does it have e.g. width, update frequency, number of stocks, > > > > etc? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > =Guy > > > > > 18:14:14 up 8:52, 2 users, load average: 0.40, 0.27, 0.26 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Interesting. It sure is the stock ticker. It was set to slow speed, > > > there are 6 stocks, update every 11 minutes, nothing else special. > > > I even removed it from the panel and I see the same 5 second tick. > > > It's especially noticeable in screensaver mode. The entire screen stops > > > for a split second, then picks back up. > > > > > > Good call on the stock ticker, unfortunately it appears not to be the > > > culprit. > > > > OK - so it looks like gtik2_applet2 was a false positive. I take it > > that it's no longer is the process list after removing from the panel? > > > > So I wonder, what is the culprit? Running top with a rapid update time > > may get it to show up; there's sure to be a better way, though I can't > > think of one off-hand, alas. > > > > Sounds like someone else is seeing this; Googling turned up this > > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-25209.html > > > > Dave > > > > > > -- > > > =Guy > > > 17:34:25 up 21:11, 2 users, load average: 0.43, 1.07, 1.61 > > > > > > > what is ksoftirqd/0 > > this shows up at about # five when I lower top to .5 seconds > sounds like a kde thing, but I run gnome. > weird. > > let me check that link you sent... > > -- > =Guy > 22:31:51 up 3:13, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.34, 0.25 > -- =Guy 00:10:05 up 4:51, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.21, 0.27