From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264539AbTIJE4c (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:56:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264549AbTIJE4c (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:56:32 -0400 Received: from mta6.algx.net ([67.92.168.235]:40740 "EHLO chimta05.algx.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264539AbTIJE4b (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:56:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:01:09 -0500 From: Tony Jones Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 and Warcraft III - WineX In-reply-to: <1063169563.21739.1.camel@thelight.sir-tez.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <1063170068.21762.1.camel@thelight.sir-tez.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1063169563.21739.1.camel@thelight.sir-tez.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Please cc me on any replies, thanks! Tony Jones aka Sir-Tez On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:52, Tony Jones wrote: > In my testing of recent kernels 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4 (mm6 > wouldn't cooperate with X for some reason and I didn't do much > investigation) I've experied an easily replicable and highly annoying > problem with Warcraft III and WineX 3.1 (prebuilt). > > After playing 1 or 2 games, or leaving the game idle in the chat room, > the sound will eventually start to stutter and chop badly. In the > presence of this incredibly bad sound, the mouse and game respond just > fine (kudos to the scheduler on that point). Considering the game is > played in "real-time" and is full of audio cues I hate to imagine that > Con's scheduler will be the "official" scheduler of 2.6 without having > this issue addressed. > > The kernels I use are tainted with nvidia's video drivers, 1.0.4496. > > Nick's scheduler in 2.6.0-test4-mm5 seems to be the only thing capable > of correcting this problem. In general operation, mm5's scheduler > seems better at handling about everything I threw at it, with a rare > xmms skip once in a week of use. > > I'm not a developer but I'd love some feedback and or questions to > help figure out why this happens with Con's scheduler patches in mm4 > and test5 to help improve 2.6.0 altogether. > > Other stats: gcc 3.2.3, AMD Athlon XP 2100+, 512MB RAM, ATA 100 > drive, GF4 Ti4200. I'll also post CFLAGS upon request.