Release Candidates :: DSL v4.0rc5

DSL 4.0rc5 on my computer is running at close to 100 percent CPU usage. The lowest usage I saw was 88 percent. My CPU is a Sempron 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM on a Biostar K8M800-M7A motherboard. I checked the md5sum and it is OK. DSL 3.4.4 runs at very low CPU usage on the came computer. The same is true for DSL 3.3 that came with your book. I got it yesterday.

I ran Top and saw that Xvesa shows between 50% and 80% CPU usage. The next hightest is Firefox of course. This is the first time for me trying 4.0 so I can't compare this version with earlier ones.

I don't want to sound dismissive but, it is the first report in five RCs. I cannot reproduce nor I have I seen such. But possible web page demands, possble bad CD burn? Possible conflicting extensions? Only guessing. Try another computer. Try anothe CDROM.

As you suggested I downloaded rc5 again just to be sure I have a good version. It too had a good md5sum. I tried it on the computer with the Sempron CPU and got the same result of maximum CPU usage. Next I took the disk to a little EPIA 5000 I use as a spare. It worked perfectly on that little honey, low CPU usage. So it seems that I have to figure out why rc5 doesn't work on the Sempron when 3.4.4 and 3.3 work fine on it.

I'll see what I come up with tomorrow. I have a spare nVidia card to try instead of the onboard video.

I've seen this 80-90% usage on high-end CPUs before, and it was always caused by faulty hardware, e.g. shaky mouse ball, sticking keys on keyboard, dying lan card. I just experienced one last week (bad mouse).

Is it just me or is Vim busted ?? I dont normally use it but accidentally ran Vim up from the Editors menu.. I could not figure out how to get out of Vim and even the F1 help wasn't found. The directory /usr/share/vim is completely missing. I checked the MD5 of my Iso and also verified the CD on burning it so I dont think its my CD. This was using a CD boot of DSL v4 rc5

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