From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: weird X problem - priority inversion?
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:51:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117201898.13829.3.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505230110240.7165@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 01:11 -0700, David Lang wrote:
> remember that the low pri screensaver is just generating the image to be
> displayed, it's the high pri X server that's actually doing the work to
> display it.
>
Understood. It still seems like a bug that a lowly screensaver can
wedge the X server to the point that it consumes all available CPU.
This is a DoS - you can barely ssh in.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-27 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-13 21:48 weird X problem - priority inversion? Lee Revell
2005-05-23 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-23 8:08 ` Serge Noiraud
2005-05-23 8:11 ` David Lang
2005-05-27 13:51 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-05-27 14:01 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-27 17:34 ` David Lang
2005-05-27 17:39 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-27 17:48 ` David Lang
2005-05-27 14:03 ` Lee Revell
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