Keyboard Lag

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> I am not sure what I am about to describe is your problem, but at least
> it's a potential lead.
> My problem was that when I was typing a long e-mail, regularly the
> cursor would stop typing my text, it would hang for a few seconds, then
> the text I typed during this interval would appear all of a sudden.
> I found that the problem was two fold:
>
> 1) My internet serivce provider sometimes (once a year maybe) gives me
> troubles: connecting to sites is very slow. Once connected, it's fast,
> but the act of connecting is very slow.
>
> 2) My e-mail client is set to poll my POP mail server every 3 minutes.
> So every 3 minutes it was trying to connect to the server, but since
> the connection was crappy, it would hang/wait for the server, and while
> doing so, it would stop reading what I was typing when composing an
> e-mail. Since most e-mail are very short, it only showed when writing
> long e-mails. The problem of course is that the e-mail client (was/is
> "Sylpheed" in this case) should treat things in parallel, so that
> polling a server doesn't hang the composing window.
>
> Sylphee still has this problem, but since my ISP exhibits slow
> connection times only very rarely, it's not really a problem in
> practice... though it would still be nice to see Sylpheed get fixed.
>
> You problem happens in other applications, that's why I am not sure how
> relevant my experience is to you. However, Firefox is obviously related
> to networking, and text editors/Kate, may also be connected to the
> network, so may be affected by network problems like Sylpheed is.
>

That is the exact same issue I'm having but my ISP doesn't experience
slowdown.  In fact typing an email shouldn't be effected by connection
speed at all, though.

I access Gmail directly through FF.  When I get the lag, for lack of a
better description), in OO or Kate they are not saving anything.

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