On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:41:47PM +0100, Victor henri wrote: ... | Here are some technical details: | - I have laptop Asus Core i7 for gamers (supposed to be very fast);to | be noted : it also happens on another Asus Core I7, but NOT on an another | Asus Core i3; 4Go RAM; Have you tried running hwlat_detector? You (hopefully) can find it in your kernel sources and notes on how to use it at Documentation/hwlat_detector.txt. In short, you could be seeing long latencies spikes created by SMIs. That kernel module, hwlat_detector, may help you identifying them. The hint about setting the priority of the IRQ threads is also a good one. You should also look at the logs of the USB/firewire/whatever you are using to commounicate with your keyboard... you may be suffering buffer underruns due to file size or something similar to it. Luis -- [ Luis Claudio R. Goncalves Bass - Gospel - RT ] [ Fingerprint: 4FDD B8C4 3C59 34BD 8BE9 2696 7203 D980 A448 C8F8 ] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html