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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 06:56:11 +1200
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net>
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        Lorenzo Allegrucci <lenstra@tiscalinet.it>,
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Subject: Re: Huge console switching lags
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:

    And what's the brilliant reason for this?  And don't give any BS
    about it taking too long inside an interrupt context -- we're
    switching consoles not start netscrape.

Having console switching in interrupt context was horrible... I would
much rather have the 'odd' slightly delayed console switch than drop
stuff or have sound jitter every time I switch console (which sucks
badly).

Under even fairly heavy load here it's not a problem, what problems
does the new bahaviour create (sorry, a fork bomb is a silly
example).  With a load-average of over 20 its still responsive.





  --cw
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