System hiccups

[sakuramboo]

When I was running 8.04, I did a dist-upgrade via the update manager. Everything worked without a hitch, except from that moment on, the system would just hiccup for a brief second. This does not affect every application, but most are affected.

After first, I just noticed it when I would view a flash video or flash game on a website. The audio would play fine, but the video would sort of just skip every few seconds and the skip was usually only a half a second. Then I started to nice that when scrolling up and down on a website, it would pause for a brief second before rushing to where I had scrolled to. That was with 8.10.

Then, I upgraded to 9.04 via the update manager. I still experience those minor bugs, but now I'm also noticing it when using AbiWord, Pidgin, even while filling this out. I would start typing, the whole thing would stop for a brief second while I continue to type, then everything would just catch up. And furthermore, I notice the system clock seems to skip a second every few seconds.

Some of the things that are not affected are things like games, mocp, OpenOffice and Blender.

At first I was thinking that it might have been an Xorg issue, but Xorg.0.log only reported two errors. One was a missing font, which I fixed and the other was a v4l error (I believe it was just a warning and not an error). I monitored the CPU using htop and did not notice any spikes in CPU usage.

The only other bug report that comes close to what I'm experiencing is this one.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/186725

But, that one was reported to be fixed without any indication as to how it was fixed or what the problem was.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Tanks in advance.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in linux.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello sakuramboo

Are you still experiencing this issue with latest updated Lucid packages ?
Thanks in advance.
:)Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!