5 second cpu spike in FC3T3

[W. Guy Thomas]

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