[Novalug] Fedora 16 Gnome shell - Keyboard 'stutter'?

Ed James edward.james@gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 17:08:03 EST 2012


Miles,

   I'd start by opening up a System Monitor (or wotever yours is called)
to check if CPU usage is unusually high), or spikes to high usage from
time to time.

Ed James

On 2/5/12, Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seeing very weird things on my Fedora 16 Dell inspiron 1440 laptop of late.
>
> Seems I am now able to type 'faster' than is registering on the screen from
> any app I run in the standard Gnome shell now.
>
> I cant get even in 10-15 characters at a time in without them not
> displaying and have to slow down to about one key a second for them to
> register.
>
> This seems to have started happening right after I upgraded the memory to
> 8GB on this laptop a few weeks ago but that can't be the reason.
>
> I boot into single user mode and keystrokes are fine without issue.
> Perhaps I need to boot from a LIVE distro off a thumb drive and see if I
> have the same problems.
>
>
> Google searches are showing nothing about anybody else experiencing this
> problem but I do notice that the gnome-shell appears to have a memory leak
> and memory gets consumed over time and never reclaimed.
>
> I'm at a loss as to where to start on figuring this one out.
>



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