Re: jerks

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 12:49 -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:31 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> 
> > > This happens with a 2.6 kernel from the current updated Sarge or a 2.4
> > > from DeMuDi 1.2.1 distro.
> > 
> > Could this be the libc NPTL bug? Sarge has a buggy version of glibc with
> > a broken NPTL implementation (don't know about DeMuDi 1.2.1).
> > If so, threaded apps won't perform properly - I switched to sid for this
> > reason.
> > Workaround is to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.22 for jackd and other audio
> > apps. In sid it's fixed, and you'll also get the extra benefits of
> > gcc-4.0's better AMD64 optimisation.
> 
> The prospect of sid is terrifying on a machine I'd like to rely on :-)
> But I'll try it. Thanks.

This is almost certainly not your problem.  The NPTL bug would not cause
the mouse to freeze for 50ms.

Lee



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