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Subject: Re: Huge console switching lags
To: jfbeam@bluetopia.net (Ricky Beam)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:43:00 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton),
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> In that case, keventd needs to be a high priority real-time task.  If it
> takes SECONDS to change consoles, I'm very likely to assume the machine is
> locked and push the reset button (and I'm sure many others will do the same.)

Well one way to test that would be to renice it and see
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