Re: moving a window makes the system 'hang' until button is released

[Nick Piggin]

Greg Wooledge wrote:

> [1.] One line summary of the problem:    
> Dragging a window in X makes the system "hang" until button is released.
>
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> "Hang" means xmms's sound output stops, and if I'm running something
> like "while :; do echo hi; sleep 1; done" in a different window, that
> also stops writing "hi" until I release the mouse button.  (Then I
> get a whole bunch of them all at once.)  This seems to rule out ALSA
> being the cause, which was originally my first thought.
>
> I've tried with and without CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled.  I've tried changing
> X to be un-niced.  I've tried applying the patch-test4-O20int patch from
> Con Kolivas.  That last patch seems to have increased the time it takes
> for the problem to kick in (it's on the order of 5 seconds now instead
> of 3 seconds), but it didn't fix it.

Hi Greg,
Can you give my scheduler a try if you have time?


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