{"id":719,"date":"2011-11-10T22:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T03:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-11-10T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T03:25:48","slug":"user-input-should-take-absolute-precedence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"user input should take absolute precedence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These and other silly &#8220;100% CPU&#8221; problems should not happen, first of all:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/2417645?start=0&#038;tstart=0\">Mac OS X doesn&#8217;t know how to stop looping the CrashReporter process on repeated crashing apps<\/a>.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux\/+bug\/159356\">64-bit Linux kernel doesn&#8217;t know how to deal with full swap situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, given that &#8220;100% CPU&#8221; situations will arise, why are OS&#8217;s designed in such a way that basic user inputs like mouse and keyboard aren&#8217;t given precedence at all times? Even just to catch some escape key combo to give the user a chance to correct the offending situation? I don&#8217;t believe for a moment that a small amount of computing time cannot be devoted solely to process user input <em>at all times<\/em>. If your computing resources cannot handle that, then cut out the other crap that&#8217;s going on. If the user wants to do something, listen to the user! Simple concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These and other silly &#8220;100% CPU&#8221; problems should not happen, first of all: 1. Mac OS X doesn&#8217;t know how to stop looping the CrashReporter process on repeated crashing apps. 2. 64-bit Linux kernel doesn&#8217;t know how to deal with full swap situation. But more importantly, given that &#8220;100% CPU&#8221; situations will arise, why are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2565,2558,2466,2564,572],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computing-resources","tag-cpu-problems","tag-mac-os-x","tag-other-crap","tag-precedence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}