XO keeps staring at its own belly button

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Paul writes
> if you disable that client, is the system UI response normal?

I do not have a straightforward answer.  I am seeing MUCH TOO MUCH 
variability in whether I see the sluggishness or not.

So far, when I have paused the ever-running client, I've been seeing 
normal system UI response.  But with that client running, there are 
periods of an hour or so when the system UI response is normal, and 
then periods when the system UI response is sluggish.  [I can't 
swear to this, but I think I once experienced sluggish UI response 
right after booting, when the only session that had been launched 
was the Journal (nothing else!).]

Someone mentioned looking with 'top'.  So far, I've not been able to 
see sluggish UI response when 'top' is running.  At least once, when 
the system response was sluggish, I could switch <ctl-alt-F2> to the 
text console -- but I could not type any commands in at that text 
console (it never "echoed" the characters I had entered - it just 
gave me a new prompt when I hit <enter> at the end of a command).

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Because of how my system behaves in this matter is non-repeatable, 
I'm not going to be trying to troubleshoot this.  I posted to 
"alert" others to behavior I had not expected -- not to try to 
"solve" that behavior.

mikus



p.s.  Someone asked -- this is with a very recent Joyride