Re: patch O1int for 2.5.73 - interactivity work

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

At 03:34 PM 6/25/2003 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
>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.

Ahah.  I thought Con was referring to the delay at new song, new task 
starting at priority 20 while things higher are using the cpu.  Yeah, your 
skips sound like xmms is just running out of buffered data.

         -Mike