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 _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
