Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:33:26 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1) |
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:07:16AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote: > * Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> [2003-07-23 00:30]: > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:28, Apurva Mehta wrote: > > > I usually run Opera and the skipping occurs often while switching > > > between tabs with the mouse (not when it is done with the keyboard). > > > > > > Also, severe xmms skipping occurs while scrolling through PDF files > > > (in Acrobat) while the first few seconds of a song are playing. The > > > song virtually stops while I scroll. After the song plays for a bit, > > > scrolling through a PDF makes no difference. > > > > > > Sometimes, xmms pops up in between songs saying that it could not > > > detect the audio device! This occurs mainly during heavy disk i/o or > > > cpu usage. > > > > Could you please test 2.6.0-test1-mm2 instead? It has additional > > scheduler fixes which should improve your overall experience. > > I just patched my tree and compiled it. It does not work.. It freezes > the system when I try to start X.. I gives a huge error message and > the last line is something like : > <6>note: X[1306] exited with preempt_count 1 > > I checked all the logs and I cannot find the complete error message > anywhere. Any suggestions where to look?
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