Re: "Sticky" mouse pointer on machine with high load



On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:23:48PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
Often when my machine has load is 2 or higher it becomes very visible
that mouse motion isn't smooth. Mouse moves in a series of quite long jumps.
I believe this effect is especially pronounced when some applications
read/write a lot of files.

My understanding is that this is because signal from mouse gets stuck in
the fifo somewhere and not processed by x-server in time.

Is there any solution to this problem?

Not guaranteed, but it has worked for several people in the past - try
rebuilding your kernel with the SCHED_ULE scheduler, instead of the
SCHED_BSD4 scheduler. Although ostensibly its benefits are more obvious
on multi-processor machines, it does often seem to fix this mouse lag
issue that comes up from time to time.

It has been discussed on the list several times, so you might find some
interesting further reading if you search the archives.

Dan

--
Daniel Bye
_
ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
- against HTML, vCards and X
- proprietary attachments in e-mail / \

Attachment: pgphmI1V0pkHq.pgp
Description: PGP signature



Relevant Pages

  • Re: RT patch acceptance
    ... > Plus with RTAI we don't depend on scheduler to do the right thing etc... ... interactive priority bonus that makes it run preferentially over other ... However it seems that the range of applications that can use the ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Lockfree or not to lockfree thats the question !
    ... The scheduler should schedule the thread that can run the best. ... Fairness is *not* a POSIX requirement, and IMO, performance should ... 'technical' notions of fairness to threads may not make applications ... and that layer will always work best when the primitives were designed to be FAST rather than for some entirely different definition of "fair". ...
    (comp.programming.threads)
  • 2.6: More about interactivity
    ... Just wanted to throw a few thoughts I have about the current scheduler ... applications on my little 700 Mhz PIII laptop). ... I am experiencing sound skips, but this time I'm not using XMMS, ... With X reniced at +0, the system feels not as smooth as 2.6.0-test2-mm2, ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: I still need use function thr_setconcurrency in Solaris9?
    ... We're thinking about interfaces to allow applications to ... scheduler can make these sorts of decisions. ... Having applications specify processor scheduling ...
    (comp.unix.solaris)

Quantcast