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Does anybody else have this problem? Whenever my disk or network is doing a large data transfer, the desktop "jerks" (ie: it freezes for a very short time, then unfreezes, then freezes, unfreezes, etc) I believe this is happening when the system is responding to a hardware interrupt for either the disk or network subsystem. I have checked, and DMA is active on my SATA disk drive. I'm running Gentoo unstable on a 2.8 GHz AMD quad-core with 8 GBytes of RAM, so I'm not exactly underpowered. The jerking isn't terrible, but it is somewhat annoying. I don't recall ever having this problem with my windows machine at work. I'm using the Gentoo "Low latency" kernel. Does anybody else have this problem? Anybody have a suggestion for trying to reduce the impact of hardware IRQs on a desktop? TIA! -- Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organization www.NerdWorld.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug