Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: weird X problem - priority inversion? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Fri, 27 May 2005 09:51:38 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 01:11 -0700, David Lang wrote: > remember that the low pri screensaver is just generating the image to be > displayed, it's the high pri X server that's actually doing the work to > display it. >
Understood. It still seems like a bug that a lowly screensaver can wedge the X server to the point that it consumes all available CPU. This is a DoS - you can barely ssh in.
Lee
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