From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262296AbTIGGFd (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:05:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262449AbTIGGFd (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:05:33 -0400 Received: from static-ctb-210-9-247-166.webone.com.au ([210.9.247.166]:37638 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262296AbTIGGFa (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:05:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5ACA93.6020302@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 16:05:07 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Wooledge CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: moving a window makes the system 'hang' until button is released References: <20030906205320.GA21490@pegasus.wooledge.org> In-Reply-To: <20030906205320.GA21490@pegasus.wooledge.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?