X becomes unresponsive with nvidia and hardlocks with gdb (was Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics)

[Christoph Mallon]

Christoph Mallon schrieb:
> This also causes interesting cascades like stuttering music:
> - gcc preferred over X
> - X cannot redraw xterm fast enough
> - buffer of xterm fills
> - mplayer cannot write its status line to xterm and blocks
> - because mplayer blocks it cannot feed more data to the sound device
> - music stutters

I just realised that this is the classical priority inversion scenario: 
mplayer has a far higher priority than the compile job, but cannot run 
because it is waiting for X. This reminds me of the poor little mars 
probe Sojourner.