[TAG] High Load on Computer....

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:00:28AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>  --- Ben Okopnik <ben at callahans.org> wrote: 
> 
> > What happens when you run it without any manager, i.e. just start X
> > itself? If the load is still low at that point, what happens when you
> > fire up, say, "twm"? There are times when you have to slice very fine to
> > get to the root cause, and this sounds like one of those.
> 
> Thanks, Ben. I have fixed this now within the last ten minutes or so. The
> problem was with the BIOS. It seemed I had to turn off *all* memory
> caching in there, and to disable APM since that was causing all kinds of
> nasties.

[laugh] I just love the TAG effect. Happens on a regular basis. Hey,
maybe I should ask you guys for help with this ACPI problem I've got -
it would probably solve itself a few seconds later! :)


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