Re: Bad interactivity with 2.6-test9

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Stan Bubrouski wrote:

> When I start watching a video under mplayer and have something like
> spamassassin doing a sa-learn in an x-term if I start the sa-learn
> before mplayer and then play a video, the sa-learn makes  no  progress
> until I switch away from mplayer (playing full screen).  After which
> sa-learn continues to filter through messages much faster, and even
> while mplayer is going is still progressing much faster than before I
> switched away from mplayer the first time.
> 
> Very odd.  Con anyone ideas?

Looks like scheduler starvation.  Con ?

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