From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: moving a window makes the system 'hang' until button is released
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 16:05:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5ACA93.6020302@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030906205320.GA21490@pegasus.wooledge.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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-07 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-06 20:53 moving a window makes the system 'hang' until button is released Greg Wooledge
2003-09-07 6:05 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-09-07 13:17 ` Greg Wooledge
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