Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: patch O1int for 2.5.73 - interactivity work | From | Daniel Gryniewicz <> | Date | 25 Jun 2003 15:34:53 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:00, Mike Galbraith wrote: > At 02:09 AM 6/26/2003 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > >I'm still working on something for the "xmms stalls if started during very > >heavy load" as a different corner case. > <snip scheduler suggestion> > Just a couple random thoughts, both of which I can see problems with ;-) >
At least on 2.4 (I use 21-ck3), it appears to be I/O starvation that gets xmms, not scheduler starvation. When xmms skips for me, there's load, but there's also usually some idle time. The common thread seems to be heavy I/O on the drive xmms is using, possibly combined with a (formerly?) interactive process (evolution rebuilding my LKML index, for example) doing the disk I/O. Because of the assorted I/O scheduler changes in 2.5, this is unlikley to be the problem there.
Daniel -- Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
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