Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:11:42 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1mm2: very bad interactive behaviour under XFree86 |
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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
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