[svlug] shufflin'around interrupts in software

[Florin Andrei]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 22:23, Todd Lyons wrote:
> 
> Marc MERLIN wanted us to know:
> 
> >> If i grab an xterm with the mouse, and shake it a little bit, the motion
> >> is jerky, not fluid, which is not what i would expect from this fairly
> >I know this is not helping you, but my work system (Dell P4 2.2GHz) exhibits
> >similar problems. For one, my (USB) mouse becomes very jerky when I do
> >intense net or disk access
> 
> I've got a Gigabyte mobo that I'm testing right now that does similar
> things.  Mouse randomly jumps up to the corner and sound has occassional
> pops.  Nothing I've done fixes it.  It's got a Via8233A chipset IIRC.

Ok. Please run "cat /proc/interrupts" and tell us what's the output.

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Florin Andrei

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