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Date:      Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:54:45 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Sticky" mouse pointer on machine with high load
Message-ID:  <20081206235256.D1855@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20081206122711.GF19575@torus.slightlystrange.org>
References:  <4939F044.8090507@rawbw.com> <20081206122711.GF19575@torus.slightlystrange.org>

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> Not guaranteed, but it has worked for several people in the past - try
> rebuilding your kernel with the SCHED_ULE scheduler, instead of the

make sure you have quite new FreeBSD 7-* branch, as it was quite improved 
few months ago.

you may try to tune it up by changing

kern.sched.interact

sysctl

in short - higher value - interactive processes gets better scheduling

> SCHED_BSD4 scheduler. Although ostensibly its benefits are more obvious
> on multi-processor machines, it does often seem to fix this mouse lag
> issue that comes up from time to time.
>
> It has been discussed on the list several times, so you might find some
> interesting further reading if you search the archives.
>
> Dan
>
> -- 
> Daniel Bye
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