Jumpy text scrolling on X.

[dimon]

I have received X32 and am trying it out (1.6 G/ 758 RAM)

Noticed that scrolling the web page (googled for BLS) is much slower then on my old A20m (14" old box, specs are much worse) and on DELL (14", better specs). Movement is kind of chunky/jumpy. I am lost here. Is it due to smaller screen?

[bhtooefr]

Check Task Manager - if the CPU utilization is consistenly high (>80%), or if the commit charge is greater than 786,432 KB, then you're running too much stuff. If the commit charge is high, go to Processes, and click "Mem Usage" until the bigger numbers are higher in that column. If the CPU utilization is high, click on the "CPU" heading in the same way.

Then, note which the processes are taking up the most memory or CPU time. Post them here.

[dimon]

I am running just default IBM apps, which take ~280 Mg... I have total 750 Mg of RAM. The CPU does peg to 100% then drops. This is causing the jumpiness. I have tryed this is both high perf and adaptive mode.

So this is somehow the function of the machine and not what I am doing. Note, I have tried this on 2 other boxes.

[Pennstate]

did you try adjusting the scrolling speed under the trackpoint config utility?

Also, try turning the smooth scrolling on/off in Explorer.

[dimon]

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Also, try turning the smooth scrolling on/off in Explorer.

turning smooth scrolling OFF did the trick...

funny, XPsp2 is different when installed fresh vs. upgraded version which I have on DELL ...