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

Takashi Iwai
2004-07-12T13:16:05Z

At Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:09:14 +0300,
ismail dönmez wrote:
>
> I dont't have NPTL.

Then the problem must be on artsd, possibly handling the job with a
normal scheduling. Stalling for 2-3 seconds with RT task is quite
unusual.

Takashi

>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:48:48 +0200, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > At Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:55:25 +0300,
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Btw Amarok uses Artsd ( KDE Sound Daemon ) which in turn set to use
> > > Jack Alsa Backend.
> >
> > Did you run JACK on linuxthreads (with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.xx) ?
> >
> > On NPTL with jackstart, JACK clients don't get set to SCHED_FIFO
> > correctly.
> >
> >
> > Takashi
> >
>
>
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