--- El mar 4-nov-08, Adam Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:

> De:: Adam Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Asunto: Re: events/0 causing lots of wakeups
> A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Fecha: martes, 4 noviembre, 2008, 10:10 am
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:01 -0800, William Lovaton wrote:
> 
> > My hardware is a Dell XPS M1210 laptop ICH7 chipset
> with an Intel
> > T2400  @ 1.83GHz.  I am using Fedora Rawhide (Fedora
> 10) with the
> > latest updates and kernel 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686.
> 
> Can you try this build of the X server?
> 
> % koji download-build xorg-x11-server-1.5.2-12.fc10
> % sudo rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-server-*
> 
> There's an incredibly lame bug in the tty driver, where
> if you put it in
> raw mode but then never read from it, eventually the
> kernel's event
> queue fills up and triggers a wakeup storm trying to
> enqueue the events.
> Hilarity ensues.  Opening the tty O_WRONLY has no effect,
> the kernel
> kindly queues up input events you will never possibly read
> just in case
> you change your mind.
> 
> That build of the X server has a workaround that just
> tcflush()s the fd
> whenever it's got data to read.  I've submitted a
> releng ticket, should
> be fixed by F10 gold.
> 
> - ajax

Thanks Adam for your help.  X makes sense since the problem is fixed if a I 
logout my gnome session.  I'll try to install the new X server and see if the 
problem persists.

Cheers,

-William



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