Quoting Adam Jackson, On 11/04/2008 03:10 PM:
> 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.
I see the same problem on an openSUSE machine with xserver from git.
Could you please provide some more detailed information about the bug
and your workaround?

Cheers, Johannes

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