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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: xserver-xorg-core: default nice value makes xorg behave nasty.
- From: Wilfried Goesgens <willi@goesgens.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:31:48 +0200
- Message-id: <20060420103148.32401.69033.reportbug@jordy.home.net>
Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 1:1.0.2-4
Severity: normal
since i've upgraded my sid to xorg (not the transition to 7.0, the first move yet)
my system was slow, xmms would stop while changing virtual desktops, firefox rendering
pages with shades (bb4.org/hobbitmon.sf.net) would make the system allmost unusable.
playing arround with the nice values of the browser, xmms (putting the browser to 15, xmms to -12) wouldn't do any better.
_but_ changing the xserver from the package default of -10 to -1 would make the system run smooth with firefox and xmms running on 0 nice.
As most of the kernel processes run with nice -5 i doubt that it makes sense to sugest users to give their x-server a higher prio than that.
the default for that should be in the range of -1 through -4, -10 is counter productive, not to say evil, because of it renders the system disresponsive.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontenc1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 font encoding library
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-1 GCC support library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.0-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxfont1 1:1.0.0-3 X11 font rasterisation library
ii x11-common 1:7.0.12 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xserver-xorg-input-al 1:7.0.12 the X.Org X server -- input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-ev 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- evdev input driv
ii xserver-xorg-input-kb 1:1.0.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- keyboard input d
ii xserver-xorg-input-mo 1:1.0.4-2 X.Org X server -- mouse input driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-al 1:7.0.12 the X.Org X server -- output drive
ii xserver-xorg-video-ap 1:1.0.1.5-2 X.Org X server -- APM display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-ar 1:0.5.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- ark display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-at 1:6.5.7.3-3 X.Org X server -- ATI display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-ch 1:1.0.1.3-3 X.Org X server -- Chips display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-ci 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- Cirrus display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-cy 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- Cyrix display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-du 1:0.1.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- dummy display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-fb 1:0.1.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- fbdev display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-gl 1:1.0.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- Glint display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-i1 1:1.1.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- i128 display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-i7 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- i740 display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-i8 1:1.5.1.0-2 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
ii xserver-xorg-video-im 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- IMSTT display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-mg 1:1.2.1.3.dfsg.1-2 X.Org X server -- MGA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-ne 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- Neomagic display
ii xserver-xorg-video-ne 1:0.1.4.1-3 X.Org X server -- Newport display
ii xserver-xorg-video-ns 1:2.7.6.5-2 X.Org X server -- NSC display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:1.0.1.5-2 X.Org X server -- NV display drive
ii xserver-xorg-video-re 1:4.0.1.3.dfsg.1-2 X.Org X server -- Rendition displa
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3 1:1.8.6.5-2 X.Org X server -- S3 ViRGE display
ii xserver-xorg-video-sa 1:2.0.2.3-4 X.Org X server -- Savage display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-si 1:1.3.1.5-3 X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion di
ii xserver-xorg-video-si 1:0.8.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- SiS display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-si 1:0.7.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- SiS USB display
ii xserver-xorg-video-td 1:1.1.1.3-3 X.Org X server -- tdfx display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-tg 1:1.0.0.5-3 X.Org X server -- TGA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-tr 1:1.0.1.2-2 X.Org X server -- Trident display
ii xserver-xorg-video-ts 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- Tseng display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-ve 1:1.0.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- VESA display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-vg 1:4.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- VGA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-vi 1:0.1.33.2-2 X.Org X server -- VIA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-vm 1:10.11.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- VMware display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-vo 1:1.0.0.5-2 X.Org X server -- Voodoo display d
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core recommends:
pn xkeyboard-config <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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