[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 757942] Input event (e. g. typing on keyboard) is sent repeatedly during high load

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757942

--- Comment #38 from Christian Stadelmann <gnome at genodeftest.de> ---
(In reply to Olivier Fourdan from comment #37)
> (In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #36)
> > Hm, I'm still seeing this issue¹ rarely, and it is not limited to XWayland
> > applications. Can you please reopen this bug or shall I create a new one?
> > 
> > ¹ to be more specific: under high load, letters typed into text fields of
> > any application get repeated.
> 
> Any application?

Multiple ones. I'm not quite sure which. I'm not 100% sure so I'll wait for the
next time this happens, then I'll report back.

> This is odd, I have reduced the key repeat delay to the minimum (usable) and
> increased the repeat rate to the maximum, while stressing the CPU, i/o and
> malloc ("stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2" on a 10 years old intel core2 duo),
> load avg peaks at more than 30, the mouse becomes very jerky and yet I am
> still able to type within gedit, firefox, etc.
> 
> But of course, keys being repeated can happen, as it depends on the delay
> set by the user.
> 
> What gives:
> 
>  $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.keyboard repeat-interval

uint32 30

>  $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.keyboard delay

uint32 500

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