Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:50:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 |
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > But it was definitely there. 3-5 second _pauses_. Not slowdowns. > > I can second this. Using Linux 2.5.5x, untarring a file while > compiling could cause X to freeze for several seconds at a time. > I haven't seen this problem recently, [...]
i believe this is rather due to IO scheduling / VM throttling. Andrew added some nice improvements lately, so this should really not happen with 2.5.64 kernels.
> [...] though I do experience my share of XMMS skips.
okay, could you please test BK-curr, or 2.5.64+combo-patch? Do the skips still persist? Did they get worse perhaps? I guess it might take a few days of music listening while doing normal desktop activity, to get a good feel of it though.
Ingo
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