On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:15:35PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
> I have not experienced what you are talking about but I do experience 
> what I think that you are complaining about.  IIUC, this is not a 
> function of the graphics card but rather of the way that *NIX does 
> multitasking.  UNIX will block user I/O to do other things -- a very 
> broken idea for GUIs.  Some distros try to ameliorate this by bumping X 
> up to Nice=-10, but I don't see that this really helps.
> 
> I think that what you need to address this without rewriting parts of 
> the Linux Kernel is to have a CPU dedicated to running X.

Ever since linux-2.6 came out with preempt, my GUIs have been running
happily smoothly.


Justin
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