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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:02:38 -0300 From: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com> To: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> Cc: Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@....fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, "Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com> Subject: Re: Keys get stuck On Thu 13.Mar'08 at 12:28:13 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: >[...] > Swap can definitely keep X off the cpu for extended periods, >[...] So I would like to ask if swap letting X (and everything else in my experience) out of the cpu for extended periods is considered normal behaviour, in the sense that nobody is trying to "fix" it (due to it being considered impossible to fix)...? Sorry for being off-topic, but I run a minimal Window Maker desktop in a P4 3.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM (around 140 MB being used as per 'free'), and trying to load a 380 MB text file in xjed editor makes my whole desktop quite unfair... it takes tens of seconds to switch desktop, type things in the terminal etc. When xjed finishes loading the text file, everything comes back to "fair" again. Is there some law in the nature of computers which says that when swapping everything else waits for swap to finish its business? I hope not :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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