Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:13:15 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: elevator=as, or actually gpm doesn't get time from scheduler??? |
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Antti Lankila wrote:
> My X reads gpmdata, so perhaps that's the problem? I now undercut gpm in > order to examine the situation, and my system behaves _perfectly_ as far as > I can see. The mouse issues are all gone. (gpm is still running in the > background, X just reads psaux directly. As I have understood, this is > possible in 2.6 while in 2.4 it caused a problem for multiple readers.) > > I progress from now by removing gpm on all my systems. There's still the > issue what gpm (or maybe kernel's scheduler) is doing wrong, I suppose. > Nevertheless, gpm is virtually useless for me and has so far caused far more > grief than its utility has ever been worth. > > I'm sorry for having wasted your time with this. >
Not at all, thank you for reporting the problem.
It seems the CPU scheduler is a bit fragile when there are a number of interrelated processes. Note: I don't know whether my scheduler fixes this case or not, it might just be a difficult problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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