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["Sam Liddicott" <address@hidden>]

On 25/11/10 10:54, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> Thanks for all these reports.
> As pointed out by Sam, this bug is mostly probably linked with texmacs 
> behavior under repainting. The current Qt solution (which is different 
> from the X11 one due to limitations in the API) is to stop typesetting 
> and repainting after a fixed amount of time and retry later to finish 
> the work. This to allow user input and to avoid aving the GUI blocked 
> while typesetting and repainting. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the 
> bug on my Mac and this make less easy for me to provide a reliable 
> fix. I hope to be able to fix this issue soon.

Perhaps the amount of time could be increased or configurable in the 
mean time. Reasonably the likelihood of the bug to occur seems to relate 
to CPU load, which might help demonstrate the bug if some heavy task 
could run.

Although I've had the problem on my 500MHz netbook, I hadn't noticed the 
problem occur on my 2 core 2.6GHz laptop until I added the new 
low-latency patches everyone is talking about which allocates CPU 
resources into CPU groups - thus I think the texmacs group perhaps 
consumed it's resources too soon and some were given over to virtual 
machines I'm hosting - which may not have occurred if CPU were allocated 
on a per-process basis.

Sam
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