Re: moving a window makes the system 'hang' until button is released

[Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:

>[1.] One line summary of the problem:    
>Dragging a window in X makes the system "hang" until button is released.
>
>[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>"Hang" means xmms's sound output stops, and if I'm running something
>like "while :; do echo hi; sleep 1; done" in a different window, that
>also stops writing "hi" until I release the mouse button.  (Then I
>get a whole bunch of them all at once.)  This seems to rule out ALSA
>being the cause, which was originally my first thought.
>
>I've tried with and without CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled.  I've tried changing
>X to be un-niced.  I've tried applying the patch-test4-O20int patch from
>Con Kolivas.  That last patch seems to have increased the time it takes
>for the problem to kick in (it's on the order of 5 seconds now instead
>of 3 seconds), but it didn't fix it.
>

Hi Greg,
Can you give my scheduler a try if you have time?