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Steve Rogers <thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
> wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, but for me they vary between "a bit slow" and "so slow they miss
> > > out characters".
> > 
> > The only time I've had anything *that* slow is at times like now, when
> > MacSoup is expiring old headers (oops - I was lying.  StuffitExpander
> > was de-hqxing a file at that moment).  Which does seem to imply that
> > you've got a process processing away for some reason.
> 
> Not a visible one, though.  It seems to have something to do with being
> on the Net even when there's no data passing either way.

Oh blimey - well, it could be almost anything.  The System has lots of
invisible sub-processes running all the time - more if you're connected
to the net.
[snip]

> Restarting always works for me.  Oddly enough, hearing someone else has
> found this effect happening for no apparent reason feels quite
> reassuring.

Oh, restarting my 475 always solved the problem in the immediate
here-and-now; re-building the desktop etc., reduced the frequency with
which the problem re-occurred.

Rowland.

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