From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266234AbUGJMe5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:34:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266236AbUGJMe5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:34:57 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:39059 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266234AbUGJMez (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:34:55 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:35:20 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: ismail =?iso-8859-1?Q?d=F6nmez?= Cc: Redeeman , LKML Mailinglist , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Message-ID: <20040710123520.GA27278@elte.hu> References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <1089407610.10745.5.camel@localhost> <20040710080234.GA25155@elte.hu> <20040710085044.GA14262@elte.hu> <2a4f155d040710035512f21d34@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2a4f155d040710035512f21d34@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0, required 5.9 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * ismail dönmez wrote: > Tested on 2.6.7-bk20, Pentium3 700 mhz, 576 mb RAM > > I did cp -rf big_folder new_folder . Then opened up a gui ftp client > and music in amarok started to skip like for 2-3 seconds. what filesystem are you using? also, are you sure it's not pure IO latency (or swapout) that hits you? Do you get the same if you copy the music file to /dev/shm and play from there? Ingo