Re: Giving a process absolute priority

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:19 AM Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > [I]t is possible for the Xvnc process to be squeezed out briefly by
> > the scheduler, but not so briefly that remote clients do not notice
> > and get frustrated because a button has not responded in the way they
> > expect.
>
> I don't know whether this is plausible; you don't say what your basis
> is for thinking the issue is Xvnc getting scheduled out.  But it occurs
> to me that, unless you have some independent reason for thinking Xvnc
> is the problem, the actual problem might be nothing to do with Xvnc but
> rather a brief network hiccup leading to the VNC connection locking up
> until a retransmit timer fires and the underlying TCP connection picks
> up again.

Yeap. Wireshark it. If you can get a few examples of the problem, and
it's not obviously a network issue, you can still look at the timing
of responses to find system issues.

Andy