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16,179 reads · 2008-03-15 – 2008-03-17
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Slow jerky mouse movement with HD munching

Usually when there is a lot of harddrive thrashing my mouse movement gets glitchy as heck and jumpy. ie. when Transmission is checking a file or something. I am using Zephs 10.5.2 v1 install and the new speedstep 9.2.0 kernel. AMD Opteron…

Primary Author
@StealthMode Published 2008-03-15
Collection
Leopard 10.5
Archival Footprint
16,179 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2008-03-15 – 2008-03-17
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@StealthMode@agrafuese

Usually when there is a lot of harddrive thrashing my mouse movement gets glitchy as heck and jumpy. ie. when Transmission is checking a file or something. I am using Zephs 10.5.2 v1 install and the new speedstep 9.2.0 kernel.

AMD Opteron 165 (Dual Core)
DFI Ultra-D nForce4 Ultra
G.Skill 2gb RAM
eVGA Geforce 6800GS (QE/CI)
Buffalo WiFi (Broadcom chipset)
WD 120gb SATA (Leopard)
WD 250gb SATA (Time Machine)
WD 250gb SATA (Windows XP)
WD 500gb SATA (Files)

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @agrafuese 2008-03-17

All users with this problem, please go to this thread and discuss there:
<a href="osx.kb ot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=753">osx.kb ot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=753</a>

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #720)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@StealthModePrimary Author12008-03-15
@agrafueseContributor12008-03-17