From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 08:32:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80ADC106566C for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (mail-gw2.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E208FC12 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n1N8W50C010929; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:05 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LbWEP-0003c5-B8; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:05 +0000 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1N8W56E049515; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:05 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n1N8W4Dj049512; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:05 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Chuck Robey In-Reply-To: <49A19C22.8000600@telenix.org> Message-ID: <20090223083114.F86550@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <49A19C22.8000600@telenix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tomcat & mouse problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:32:09 -0000 On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > It seems possible, even likely, that my tomcat6 port (running via Java) might > well be the cause of my mouse suddenly slowing up and becoming very jerky in > operation. I can't guess what else might be causing my mouse to be so jerky, > but it seems to clear up if I use the rc.d tomcat6 script to stop tomcat6, and > that seems to fix the mouse problem (it clears up within maybe 30 seconds). > > I'm running a machine with plenty of memory, plenty of CPU (quad Intel core), > and using FreeBSD-current. The mouse is a Logitech USB/wireless model. Any > guess what might be causing my mouse's jerkiness? Can you try using SCHED_4BSD rather than SCHED_ULE and see if that makes a difference? Gavin