[ale] dragging response times

[walter Sams]

Mandrake 9.1 on all clients, redhat 9 on the email server 

Thank you
Walter 
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 20:03, Geoffrey wrote:
> walter Sams wrote:
> > I recently installed mandrake 9.1 on my network and notice that when
> > typing emails or word processor documents, I get a severe pause after
> > typing 18 or 20 words.  The cursor dissapears and no letters show up
> > when I type for 10 or 15 seconds.  then everything I typed  (in the
> > dark) pops on the screen and the program acts normal for a few more
> > words.  This acts like a buffer problem to me.  How would one begin to
> > identify and correct a problem like this?  I am not running any programs
> > now that I did not run before I switched. 
> > 
> > I have an accounting program, evolution 1.2.2, a pyla fax gui and open
> > office running.  I watched the system monitor to see if resources were
> > used up but saw nothing, the scales never showed more than 3-6% usage
> 
> What client is it that you're using for email and word processing?