XO keeps staring at its own belly button

[pgf at laptop.org]

mikus wrote:
 > > This looks a *lot* like how an XO acts when Suspend is on.  See if the
 > > power LED has gone off and just blinks occasionally -- that's how you really
 > > tell whether you are in suspend.  Power LED on steadily = no suspend.
 > > Power LED off most of the time, blinking on = you're suspended.
 > 
 > Thank you for the suggestion -- but this is NOT the case here.
 > 
 > I'm well acquainted with Suspend - it has effects which interfere 
 > with how I use my XO - so after installing I always do both 'touch 
 > /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend' and 'touch /etc/inhibit-ebook-sleep'. 
 > And my Power LED is on steadily -- showing I'm not in suspend.
 > 
 > The sluggishness is not consistent.  I particularly notice that at 
 > times, it can take more than three seconds before the XO responds to 
 > an alt-tab (after a period without any key presses).  This XO has a 
 > background (nice 19) task running on it which consumes 100% of the 
 > available CPU cycles -- I'm wondering if there is some kind of 

what task is that?

paul

 > keyboard service which expects the CPU to be "free" sometime?
 > 
 > 
 > mikus   (Joyride 2264, with some newer rpms applied manually)
 > 
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org