Comment 316 for bug 124406

What I don't really understand in the whole threading vs. signals
discussion is why the kernel cannot buffer in a queue of some sort
those signals before processing them. They wouldn't be lost anymore
and the kernel could process them at its own pace.

2011/4/29 Marius Kotsbak <email address hidden>:
> Regarding the bug severity, I can only agree on that given that we have
> the workaround of disabling keyboard repeat in the X server settings.
> Without that, depending on the frequency it happens, it can make the PC
> almost unusable or at least too unpredictable to trust, i.e. you always
> risk, like when I am writing in this text field to loose all when I am
> correcting one typo if I don't react in time, close all tabs in the
> browser when typing ctrl-w (since this shortcut starts CPU load, the bug
> occurence actually increase at exactly that time, as with tab completion
> in terminal).
>
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