From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262974AbTDVHnM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:43:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262977AbTDVHnM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:43:12 -0400 Received: from iits0165.inlink.com ([209.135.140.65]:35774 "EHLO vs365.rosehosting.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262974AbTDVHnL (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:43:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:48:21 -0400 From: Michael B Allen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: What's the deal McNeil? Bad interactive behavior in X w/ RH's 2.4.18 Message-Id: <20030422034821.6a57acc0.mba2000@ioplex.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm running Red Hat 7.3 with their stock 2.4.18-3 kernel on an IBM T30. Once every few hours X locks up for 5-10 seconds while the disk grinds. If I type in an Xterm the characters are not echoed until the disk grinding stops. Then they all come out in a bunch and life is back to normal. I asked about this on kernelnewbies but the only response was something regarding some kind of change to the 'elevator code' but they didn't know of a solution. I would like very much for this behavior to go away as it is extremely annoying. If there is a patch please let me know where I can get it. Thanks, Mike -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived.