Terminal hesitation - Karmic

[Rashkae]

Fred Roller wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>> Fred Roller wrote:
>>   
>>> Has anyone else with karmic noticed a hesitation in the terminal?
>>>
>>> The best way I know to explain is that it is similar to SSHing into a 
>>> system with a slow connection.  I can get a few characters typed before 
>>> they show on the screen.  It's more annoying than anything.
>>>
>>> karmic_64 on AMD Athalon_64 x2 core, 4 Gb ram and 2x 7200rpm hdds.  So I 
>>> don't think hardware is the issue and I am not taxing the system in the 
>>> least.  Scratch built from usb.  Terminal seems to be the only affected 
>>> application.
>>>
>>>     
>> Are you able to reproduce this hesitation when logged in as a newly
>> created user?  I've seen similar issues in the past that were caused by
>> faults in some gnome theme or other I had installed.
>>
>>   
> Guest session produced similar results.
> 

Ok, next question.... have you checked a cpu monitor to be certain you
don't have a run-away process chocking the system?  (top, for example)

Have you tried disabling desktop effects?