Re: weird X problem - priority inversion?

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 01:11 -0700, David Lang wrote:
> remember that the low pri screensaver is just generating the image to be 
> displayed, it's the high pri X server that's actually doing the work to 
> display it.
> 

Understood.   It still seems like a bug that a lowly screensaver can
wedge the X server to the point that it consumes all available CPU.
This is a DoS - you can barely ssh in.

Lee

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