Bug#498328: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: nice is not "fair": mouse jumps and chars repeated in terminal
severity 498328 important
thanks
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 09:24, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.26-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
> I updated 2 days ago to this kernel, and I start notice pretty soon this
> problem: when I execute a program of mine (even with nice -n 19), with 4
> parallel thread (it's cpu bound), the system completely slow down, the mouse
> starts jumping (not a smooth movement), switching to other application is
> really slow and the programs starts repeating input chars randomly (verified
> with amsn and gnome-terminal): this is what I came out trying a "ls /proc...":
>
> $ lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllls /procccccccccccccccccccccccc/2808
Today the situation was much more worst (after 3 days of uptime):
while trying to access to mysql from terminal, I start typing 'm' char
and then the drama begins: the 'm' char was repeating forever (and
it's not a faulty keyboard, since I remove the battery and the flow
kept going) in every window I choose, both terminals, xchat,
iceweasel, etc. in the current virtual desktop and in others
After a while, the whole machine start "ranting": switching to other
virtual desktop result in freezed windows, trying to exit from the DE
(xfce in this case) was not possible since xfce-panel was not
responding, and not even ssh from another pc worked!!
Please treat this as a grave bug (I didn't raise the severity to that
level because I still don't know if it's RC or not). I renew my offer
to support you in any way to debug & fix it. I saw a -5 was released:
I'll try it but from changelog it doesn't seem to address this
problem.
Thanks in advance,
Sandro
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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