From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dru <andru@treshna.com>
Subject: RE: PROBLEM: Preemptible kernel makes mpg123 skip a lot under 2.6.0-testing7 and very high load average under low usage.
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:44:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310152344.29920.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
Hi.
I quote from your output:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22953 andru 15 0 10100 5316 9464 S 3.7 0.6 2:02.39 mpg123
1067 root 5 -10 595m 58m 539m S 3.3 6.6 391:41.29 XFree86
1176 andru 15 0 47488 26m 13m S 1.0 3.0 11:52.32 gnome-terminal
25063 root 17 0 2004 1096 1792 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.03 top
The kernel is now tuned to give much more priority to reniced tasks and it is
not recommended to run your X server nice -10. This is the cause of your
problem as X is starving your audio application. Some distributions do this
by default to get around the limitations of the old cpu scheduler not being
able to make X smooth enough at nice 0. This hack/workaround is no longer
recommended for 2.6 kernels. You will find nice performance of X at nice 0
now and audio will not skip when the nice value of X is the same as your
audio application.
Con
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-15 13:44 Con Kolivas [this message]
2003-10-17 1:36 ` PROBLEM: Preemptible kernel makes mpg123 skip a lot under 2.6.0-testing7 and very high load average under low usage Dru
2003-11-06 23:02 ` Dru
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2003-10-15 12:29 Dru
2003-10-15 16:58 ` Robert Love
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