Terminal hesitation - Karmic

[Fred Roller]

>
> 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?
>
>   
Yes, typical readings:

Tasks: 173 total,   2 running, 171 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.7%us,  0.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 95.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   3800296k total,  3318512k used,   481784k free,    25512k buffers
Swap:  7815612k total,    22856k used,  7792756k free,  2391412k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
COMMAND           
 2828 froller   20   0  701m 136m  20m S    5  3.7  17:35.71 
thunderbird-bin   
 1055 root      20   0  238m 122m  16m S    2  3.3  12:54.13 
Xorg              
 3148 froller   20   0  585m  91m  23m S    1  2.5  21:42.55 
firefox           
10535 froller   20   0 19132 1376  980 R    1  0.0   0:03.07 
top               

Can't vouche for the format making it through the mail but the priority 
is on %CPU and this is typical.  I have turned off Special FX and sound 
FX. 

Need to poke around the system and see what "extra" stuff may have been 
turned on, if any.
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Fred
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