Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:31:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck |
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > I'm not sure if it's the same issue or not, they don't repeat > > "forever" for me, it just makes my speeellllliingggg llllooookkk > > teerrriibbblle. Like that. Before this happens, letters usually stop > > appearing on screen as I'm typing. I usually stop typing at that > > point, since I know it will just become a mess. > Yes, that's the symptom I was refering to. If you see that under > reasonable CPU load, and _without_ major swapping going on, then I'd be > suspicious of scheduler trouble. Swap can definitely keep X off the cpu > for extended periods, and that seems to be what triggers the repeated > keys behavior. (I've never troubleshot it, so must say _seems_)
I have a hard time calling this a kernel scheduler trouble. My understanding is that X are sometimes unhappy how kernel schedules them when under load, and that triggers bug in X autorepeat code.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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