From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262126AbVGMRj1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261922AbVGMRhn (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:37:43 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:62644 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261995AbVGMRek (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:34:40 -0400 Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark From: Lee Revell To: szonyi calin Cc: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , ck list , caszonyi@rdslink.ro In-Reply-To: <20050713112710.60204.qmail@web52902.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050713112710.60204.qmail@web52902.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:34:37 -0400 Message-Id: <1121276077.4435.50.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:27 +0200, szonyi calin wrote: > I have the following problem with audio: > Xmms is running with threads for audio and spectrum > analyzer(OpenGL). > The audio eats 5% cpu, the spectrum analyzer about 80 %. The > problem is that sometimes the spectrum analyzer is eating all of > the cpu while the audio is skipping. Xmms is version 1.2.10 > kernel is vanilla, latest "stable" version 2.6.12, suid root. > > Does your benchmark simultes this kind of behaviour ? That's just a broken app, the kernel can't do anything about it. XMMS should not be running the spectrum analyzer thread at such a high priority as to interfere with the audio thread. Lee