From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FB11B93.60701@reactivated.net> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:25:39 +0000 From: Daniel Drake MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm2 References: <20031104225544.0773904f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031104225544.0773904f.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I've been getting a couple of audio skips with 2.6.0-test9-mm2. Haven't heard a skip since test4 or so, so I'm assuming this is a result of the IO scheduler tweaks. Here's how I can produce a skip: Running X, general usage (e.g. couple of xterms, an emacs, maybe a mozilla-thunderbird) I switch to the first virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1. I then switch back to X with Alt+F7. As X is redrawing the screen, the audio skips once. This happens most of the time, but its easier to reproduce when i am compiling something, and also when I cycle through the virtual consoles before switching back to X. System: AMD XP2600+ nForce2 motherboard 512MB RAM nvidia GeForce4 Ti4800 Audio being played through the intel8x0 alsa module. I use the nvidia binary graphics driver with X. XMMS 1.2.8 XFree 4.3.0 If theres any other info I can give, please tell me and I'll do my best to help out. Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm2/ > > > - Various random fixes. Maybe about half of these are 2.6.0-worthy. > > - Some improvements to the anticipatory IO scheduler and more readahead > tweaks should help some of those database benchmarks. > > The anticipatory scheduler is still a bit behind the deadline scheduler > in these random seeky loads - it most likely always will be. > > - "A new driver for the ethernet interface of the NVIDIA nForce chipset, > licensed under GPL." > > Testing of this would be appreciated. Send any reports to linux-kernel > or netdev@oss.sgi.com and Manfred will scoop them up, thanks. > > > - I shall be offline for a couple of days. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org