Re: Bad interactivity with 2.6-test9

[Stan Bubrouski]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:54, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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 ?

Seems like it.  I'll do some testing later to see exactly how
consistently I can reproduce this.  I have noticed this numerous times
all with -test9.

-sb

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