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