Comment 618 for bug 620074

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In , mikhail.v.gavrilov (mikhail.v.gavrilov-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #604)
> And the kernel does switch to other processes and back and forth between them
> when one is waiting for I/O. The gnome shell is a very large program so on
> any
> system without vast quantities of memory the shell tends to be waiting for
> stuff to come from disk when there is any memory pressure. Last time I looked
> the compositor was single threaded with all of that so Gnome 3 stalled
> horribly
> under paging. That I'm afraid is mostly a problem in Gnome 3.

Ok, why also mouse movement is choppy? and why switching to a virtual terminal are slow?

How I can ensure that the locks occurs not in kernel? And how find where occurs locks? I am really want to help find and fix them. Apologies for the many questions.