From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:45:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:45:25 -0400 Received: from lilly.ping.de ([62.72.90.2]:46350 "HELO lilly.ping.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:44:18 -0400 Date: 18 Sep 2001 17:43:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20010918174302.C6698@planetzork.spacenet> From: jogi@planetzork.ping.de To: "Andrea Arcangeli" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.10-pre11: alsaplayer skiping during kernel build (-pre10 did not) In-Reply-To: <20010918171416.A6540@planetzork.spacenet> <20010918172529.A6698@planetzork.spacenet> <20010918173142.G19092@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010918173142.G19092@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:31:42PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:25:29PM +0200, jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:14:16PM +0200, jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote: > > > Hello Andrea, > > > > > > I gave your new vm a try and I have to report a problem. System is an > > > Athlon 1200 with 256MB memory. Workload: > > > > Sorry to follow up on my own. But the problem seems to be worse than I > > first thought. Kernel build is the first thing I test when I try a new > > kernel :-) > > > > So now I logged into X and even during starting of Mozilla or normal > > web browsing alsaplayer is skiping *lots*. The system is not into swap > > and has about 150MB cached. Just to let you know ... > > > > I guess I will go back to -pre10 now. If you want to let me test some > > things just let me know. > > just make sure not to renice top at -10. Are you sure you reniced top at > -10 also with pre10? Those issues shouldn't really vm related. I also > profiled the new vm well and it never showed up in the toplist so I > suspect you changed something in userspace. and of course I run xmms all > the time too and it didn't skept one sample yet. Ok, I just killed top. And it still is skiping lots although I do not have any reniced jobs running. And yes, I had top running reniced too on -pre10. I will boot -pre10 and check if it is skipping because alsaplayer is currently skipping as hell (running make -j4 in the background). Still no swap used. Strange. I will check xmms also and let you know. Regards, Jogi -- Well, yeah ... I suppose there's no point in getting greedy, is there? << Calvin & Hobbes >>