Carlo Cabanilla <[email protected]> writes:

> I don't have swap enabled. It's usually a dev virtualbox vm I'm
> running that goes berserk and I can't click on anything or even move
> my mouse until eventually I think something kills the vm process.

This means that problem is not in awesome, because awesome is not in
charge of cursor movements , i suspect that you encountered notorious
12309 kernel bug (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309)

>
> I was looking into using the magic SysRq key to kill the offending
> process but it only can kill everything and it's kind of a pain when X
> dies.
>
> .Carlo
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Aleksei <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Carlo Cabanilla <[email protected]> writes:
>     
>     > Is there a good way of keeping awesome responsive even when
>     certain
>     > clients are using up all the cpu? Maybe something clever with
>     cgroups?
>     
>     Dear Carlo, usually Linux manages cpu usage quite well, preventing
>     freezes by dynamically increasing priority for low cpu consuming
>     processes (such as awesome wm). Which clients reduce
>     responsiveness ?
>     
>     I suppose that responsiveness issues caused by some other reasons,
>     for
>     example by swapping, or by using slow widgets in awesome. Have you
>     tried
>     to disable all third party widgets in awesome ?

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