Re: Keys get stuck

Jiri Kosina
2008-03-13T12:07:07Z

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:

> So I would like to ask if swap letting X (and everything else in my
> experience) out of the cpu for extended periods is considered normal
> behaviour, in the sense that nobody is trying to "fix" it (due to it
> being considered impossible to fix)...? Sorry for being off-topic, but I
> run a minimal Window Maker desktop in a P4 3.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM
> (around 140 MB being used as per 'free'), and trying to load a 380 MB
> text file in xjed editor makes my whole desktop quite unfair... it takes
> tens of seconds to switch desktop, type things in the terminal etc. When
> xjed finishes loading the text file, everything comes back to "fair"
> again.

I propose you start a new thread about this with proper Subject, and CC
the scheduler maintainers.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs