Re: X responsiveness under high load

[Jesper Louis Andersen <jlouis_(_at_)_diku_(_dot_)_dk>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:26:21AM -0700, Boris Lenko wrote:
> --- Peter Valchev <pvalchev_(_at_)_sightly_(_dot_)_net> wrote:
> > > Why does X, specially the mouse, become extremely
> > > sluggish under high load on OpenBSD? For example,
> > > trying this on FreeBSD and Linux doesn't seem to
> > > affect mouse movement:
> > 
> > I've noticed this on a few occasions but only under
> > unaccelerated X.
> > Is that what you are using?  Thanks for the big bulk
> > of info you
> > provided
> 
> I am using the "nv" driver, XFree 4.3.0 and a GF4Ti4400.

There can be about one million reasons as to why it does become sluggish
right now. Everything from scheduling of processes to driver badness
comes to mind. It may not even be related to your grapics card. 

If you want to help it, go find that bottleneck. 

-- 
Jesper
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