On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 14:36:12 -0400, > Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I've never thought that there was anything more complicated to this >> phenomenon than that keyboard and disk i/o are both serviced by >> interrupts. > > That's not likely the problem. It's probably competing access to disk I/O > between the process displaying the desktop and other processes using disk I/O. > It's a niggle, but, by "keyboard i/o," I intended to refer to the entire sequence of steps that is necessary to make it appear to the user that a keystroke has been dealt with more or less instantaneously. As I understand the matter, that would be a fairly long cascade of interrupts, some of which might, indeed, have to wait for access to disk. Robert. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
