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on 19/11/2010 11:46 Bruce Cran said the following:
> [removed current@ and stable@ from the Cc list]
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:41:29 +1100
> Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Linux.  Have you ever seen those sorts of UI problems on FreeBSD?
>> I don't watch much video on my systems, but I haven't seen that.
>> FreeBSD has always been good at keeping user-interactive processes
>> responsive while compiles or what-not are going on in the background.
> 
> I've definitely seen problems when running builds in an xterm. I've
> often resorted to canceling it and running it on a syscons console
> instead to improve performance.
> 

So, what was it a problem with scheduler or with, e.g., "something X" being too
slow rendering glyphs?  Who can tell...

-- 
Andriy Gapon