Re: Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1)

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:07:16AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote:
> * Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> [2003-07-23 00:30]:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:28, Apurva Mehta wrote:
> > > I usually run Opera and the skipping occurs often while switching
> > > between tabs with the mouse (not when it is done with the keyboard).
> > > 
> > > Also, severe xmms skipping occurs while scrolling through PDF files
> > > (in Acrobat) while the first few seconds of a song are playing. The
> > > song virtually stops while I scroll. After the song plays for a bit,
> > > scrolling through a PDF makes no difference.
> > > 
> > > Sometimes, xmms pops up in between songs saying that it could not
> > > detect the audio device! This occurs mainly during heavy disk i/o or
> > > cpu usage.
> > 
> > Could you please test 2.6.0-test1-mm2 instead? It has additional
> > scheduler fixes which should improve your overall experience.
> 
> I just patched my tree and compiled it. It does not work.. It freezes
> the system when I try to start X.. I gives a huge error message and
> the last line is something like :
> <6>note: X[1306] exited with preempt_count 1
> 
> I checked all the logs and I cannot find the complete error message
> anywhere. Any suggestions where to look? 

How about your Xfree86 log?  (probably somewhere in /var/log)