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 15:29:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:28:56 -0400 Received: from ns.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.10]:38149 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:28:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:28:56 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: jogi@planetzork.ping.de Cc: andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.10-pre11: alsaplayer skiping during kernel build (-pre10 did not) Message-Id: <20010918212856.50cd5b87.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010918175104.D6698@planetzork.spacenet> In-Reply-To: <20010918171416.A6540@planetzork.spacenet> <20010918172500.F19092@athlon.random> <20010918173515.B6698@planetzork.spacenet> <20010918174434.I19092@athlon.random> <20010918175104.D6698@planetzork.spacenet> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18 Sep 2001 17:51:04 +0200 jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote: > > You can try to back it out and see if helps just in case. > > Ok Andrea, > > I will test and let you know about the findings but I am afraid I can not > test this today. But I will let you know. Btw. xmms is skipping like mad > too. Hello, just my experience in this topic: I worked on -pre11 for one complete day after massive nfs server usage, no problems so far. current meminfo looks like: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 923574272 865853440 57720832 0 66609152 629137408 Swap: 271392768 434176 270958592 MemTotal: 901928 kB MemFree: 56368 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 65048 kB Cached: 614240 kB SwapCached: 152 kB Active: 671956 kB Inactive: 7484 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 901928 kB LowFree: 56368 kB SwapTotal: 265032 kB SwapFree: 264608 kB I currently compile kernel with -j 5 while playing mp3s via xmms without the slightest problem (xosview load is now 8). I tried xmms run as root and user, makes no difference. I tried starting applications (like mozilla or applixware), no problem. No mouse hangs or anything else negative. I am _not_ using alsa, but emu10k1 from kernel. I couldn't even make it crash or skip in xmms while singing Torn together with Natalie - and listening to that _is_ real stress :-)) You only have to find some strategy to come around these formerly noticed alloc failures, perhaps by an idea to free up pages instantly if an alloc would fail otherwise (now). I like the overall performance very much, Andrea. Regards, Stephan