Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 04:28 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:37 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the
> > default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have
> > noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving
> > things like the mouse pointer in X) and periods of up to half a second
> > where interaction is not possible. 
> 
> Similar symptoms were reported on local systems when esound was enabled.

esound is certainly enabled but does that also affect X mouse cursor
movement? Also the sound card does hardware mixing and I'm sure the hold
ups were never this bad on Edgy. It's not locking up every 5 minutes but
you do notice it on startup just after booting finishes and sometimes
when you go to shutdown along with when the computer is under load (e.g.
computing package dependencies).

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