Keyboard Lag

Nolan Cooper 4030man at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 19:20:27 UTC 2009


  Nolan flopped in chair, hunched shoulders, and pecked out:
> Ok, it going to take me a while to build a new system, even the
> cheaper $200 Atom-based rig I plan to build due to money woes.  So, in
> the meantime I need to use this machine still and I've been noticing a
> problem.
> 
> I get keyboard lag.  What do I mean, well as I type for a while what I
> type appears on screen immediately as it should but from time to time
> the cursor stops and then what I've been typing suddenly all appears
> at once and then things go back to normal.  This happens not just in
> Firefox but also in Open Office and even Kate.  Its like there is
> something hanging the system every few seconds but I've checked CPU
> usage and I can't find anything that's causing it.
[snip]
> 
> Any ideas?  This problem is getting really pronounced lately.
> 

Not sure about FF, in OO and Kate, are they saving the file?

Nolan




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