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From: Alexander Kellett <lypanov@kde.org>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:03:16AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> The frequency of mouse pointer stalls, and the worst case response time, is 
> probably something an automated benchmark could measure.  (Z-order's a 
> tricker problem because the window manager's involved, but mouse stalls are 
> EASY to cause.)

actually with low-latency, preempt and X's new silken mouse
stuff i haven't had any real mouse pointer stalls in a while.
well, apart from my maxtor drive stalling my entire system 
(vmstat included) for 2 seconds at a time when i get it to
pump its full 20mb/s (and yes, dma is enabled).

Alex