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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Jens Benecke <jens-usenet@spamfreemail.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1mm2: very bad interactive behaviour under XFree86
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:11:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <400329AE.8050304@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2867040.OKCKYgd4AF@spamfreemail.de>



Jens Benecke wrote:

>Hi,
>
>running an up-to-date XFree86 4.3 from Debian unstable, I have a stuck mouse
>pointer in X11 every time some application uses 100% CPU. I have
>folding@home running in the background at nice 19, which doesn't disturb
>anything, but when my machine starts up the following happens:
>
>- KDE 3.2 boots up,
>- openoffice quickstart,
>- KGpg reads a couple thousand keys,
>- xmms, xosview, background picture, etc load up
>- about 10 cm worth of applets in the KDE panel start
>
>During this time (20-30sec) the mouse pointer jerks from position to
>position about once to twice a second. My X server runs at priority 0, not
>-10, as recommended. This has been the case since 2.6.0-test11, but I have
>the (subjective) impression that under 2.6.1rc1-mm1 and 2.6.1-mm2 it got
>worse.
>

mm kernels have a small interactivity change, so it would be good to
compare with plain 2.6.1.

It is recommended that your X server run at priority 0. The -10
priority is recommended when using my interactivity patches. Its all
quite confusing.

>
>I am using an Athlon XP 2600+ with 1024MB RAM, Nforce2 chipset, NVIDIA
>XFree86 drivers.
>
>
>Shall I try vanilla 2.6.1 and compare? Or is this an obvious problem?
>

Please try 2.6.1



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-12 21:13 2.6.1mm2: very bad interactive behaviour under XFree86 Jens Benecke
2004-01-12 23:11 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-01-13  7:10   ` 2.6.1mm2: nforce2 / amd74xx IDE driver doesn't load Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 14:34     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-13 15:40       ` Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 16:56         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-13 18:11           ` Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 18:24             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-13 21:15               ` Jens Benecke
2004-01-13 21:42                 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-14  9:30                   ` Jens Benecke

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