Re: weird X problem - priority inversion?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 02:59:38 EST



does this still occur with the latest tree? (.47-05 or later)

Ingo

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am having a problem with the RT preempt kernels where xscreensaver
> will cause the X server to consume excessive CPU, starving other
> processes. This should not happen as xscreensaver runs at the highest
> nice value. It seems that there's some kind of priority inversion
> happening between the high prio X server and low prio xscreensaver.
>
> This seems like an X problem to me, but could the kernel be involved?
>
> Lee
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