Re: 2.6 vs 2.4 regression when running gnomemeeting

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:15, Christian Meder wrote:
> I just tried hammering on the sound drivers on the playback side. So I
> put on a kernel compile, a find | cat >/dev/null and ogg123 playback.
> Playback performed largely unimpressed from the load level, no skips or
> whatever. Even adding a gnomemeeting connection didn't decrease audio
> playback.

Great, this is more the performance I'm used to hearing about.

> My guess is that the audio drivers are ok even more so because 
> otherwise OSS _and_ ALSA would be broken for my soundcard.
>
> That would leave me with two possibilities: 2.6. is doing something
> different in the gnomemeeting case or gnomemeeting is doing something
> different in the 2.6 case. A cursory look at the gnomemeeting sources
> didn't give me the impression that it's doing anything which would be
> affected by 2.6 deployment but I'll ask on the gnomemeeting-devel list
> for advice.

Threads perhaps?

Sounds more like a resource collision of some sort. IRQ conflict? Spurious 
interrupt? Were you facing Mecca when you ran it?

> Thanks for all your help, I hope I can nail it soon,

Good luck and keep us informed.

Con