Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:57:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Huge console switching lags |
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Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote: > > I've experienced huge (4/5 seconds) console switching lags with > 2.4.10 running this [1], never seen before with any kernel.
In 2.4.10, the console switching code moved from interrupt context into process context. So if your system is taking a long time to schedule processes (in this case, keventd) then yes, console switching will take a long time.
> 2.4.10-ac2 is even worse, it can take up to 10/20 seconds and longer > to switch from a console to another (CTRL+F1,F2 etc) while running > the beast below: > > [1] > #!/bin/sh > bomb(){bomb|bomb&};bomb >
The simple ones are always the best ones, aren't they?
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