Re: Periodic sluggishness in games
Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu> writes:
>Ron Johnson wrote:
>>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
>>
>>>I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games [...]
>Unfortunately I don't have another system to ssh from.
>As a test, I tried playing UT from twm, with none of the Gnome stuff
>running. The same problem occurs. It appears to be kind of
>progressive: it's fine for a good while, then slows for a moment, then
>is fine for a shorter time, then slows, then fine, slows, fine, slows,
>et c.
It could be some [weird] cron job or something. Try this to obtain top's
snapshots to a file in background while playing:
$ top -b -d 10 > top.txt &
$ nifty-game
After some 40 secs os sluggishness, exit the game, kill top ("pkill
top") and check top.txt. Look for a high cpu usage process, on the last
2 or 3 listings.
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