Slow xterm response

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Barton C Massey wrote:
> Does it happen when the laptop is plugged in?  If not, it
> could be a power-management thing throttling your laptop
> down.  In any case, try turning all your ACPI power management
> stuff off and see if the problem persists.

Alternatively, you might be getting interrupt storms; checking
/proc/interrupts in a periodic manner in the background might tell you
something as well.

Cheers,
-- jra
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