Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans-Peter Jansen <> | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:22:04 +0100 |
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Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb Jiri Kosina: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, David Newall wrote: > > > The problem is that under heavy load the auto-repeat problem is real; > > > I've seen it as well, and it means that I've started to try to avoid > > > "make -j4" since that's a great way to trigger it. > > > > I'm sure it does suck under heavy load, although I suppose you could > > increase the start time. But I wonder if that is the problem this > > time? Modern machines are so damned fast they actually take real > > effort to load. Actually, "make -j4" doesn't sound particularly heavy. > > There's huge disk i/o in a make. Plenty of scheduling opportunities. > > Obviously I only know what everybody else here knows; but with so many > > recent posts suggesting a scheduling fault has been introduced, I'm > > expecting it to be that. > > The problem became much more apparent during early -rc phase of 2.6.25 > for those people that have CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED turned on. This clearly > shows that X are somehow unhappy with how kernel schedules them, but I > don't have idea how autorepeat is implemented inside X and what could be > the problem right now.
Just for the record, this problem started with openSUSE 10.2 for me, that's a 2.6.18 thingy. I'm a heavy xterm user, where the autorepeat gets a life of its own _occasionally_. I'm able to stop it by triggering a autorepeat manually (typical antidot reaction).
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