Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Ingo Molnar
2004-07-10T12:34:57Z

* ismail dönmez <ismail.donmez@gmail.com> 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