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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: weird X problem - priority inversion?
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:48:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113428938.16635.13.camel@mindpipe> (raw)

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:[~2005-04-13 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-13 21:48 Lee Revell [this message]
2005-05-23  7:55 ` weird X problem - priority inversion? Ingo Molnar
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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