XO keeps staring at its own belly button

[pgf at laptop.org]

i wrote:
 > mikus wrote:
 >  > 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?
 > 

mikus has informed me that he's running a <do-some-calculation>@home
client in the background.

mikus -- if you disable that client, is the system UI response normal?

paul
p.s. could someone please design the icon that should accompany
this thread?  :-)

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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org