On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:06 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote: > > If, for example, I'm typing, the text will stop appearing for second (or > > so) and then all the letters I've typed over that time appear. > > > > Add to this that the icons on the desktop will disappear, and then > > reappear. This usually happens at the end of the pause. > > I've certainly noticed the pauses. I haven't seen the icon behavior. > > My impression is that keyboard and mouse handling has somehow become vastly > lower priority than disk IO processing. I've noticed when running "yum update" > I'll see the interactive pauses right at the same time each new rpm is > finished downloading or installing. (This is on a system with USB keyboard > and mouse and SATA disks). This for me is a whole of desktop thing. Examples: * If you run top, then top's refresh stalls when it happens. * Just as I started to write this email I dragged the window across the desktop at just the right time. My windows go transparent when I dragged and the window (having been released) remained transparent for a moment while the system stalled. * Games (like xmoto) stall for a moment and then resume. Rodd > > > -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
