linux-kernel - Re: Keys get stuck

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803131305540.30831@jikos.suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:06:53 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	"Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>
cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@....fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>,
	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, "Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Keys get stuck

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:

> 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.

I propose you start a new thread about this with proper Subject, and CC 
the scheduler maintainers.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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