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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: weird X problem - priority inversion?
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:55:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050523075508.GC9287@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113428938.16635.13.camel@mindpipe>


does this still occur with the latest tree? (.47-05 or later)

	Ingo

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> I am having a problem with the RT preempt kernels where xscreensaver
> will cause the X server to consume excessive CPU, starving other
> processes.  This should not happen as xscreensaver runs at the highest
> nice value.  It seems that there's some kind of priority inversion
> happening between the high prio X server and low prio xscreensaver.
> 
> This seems like an X problem to me, but could the kernel be involved?
> 
> Lee

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-23  7:56 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 [this message]
2005-05-23  8:08   ` Serge Noiraud
2005-05-23  8:11   ` David Lang
2005-05-27 13:51     ` Lee Revell
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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