From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261934AbVGNAB6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:01:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262779AbVGMX7M (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:59:12 -0400 Received: from mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.183]:63685 "EHLO mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262844AbVGMX6K (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:58:10 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:57:58 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: szonyi calin , linux kernel mailing list , ck list , caszonyi@rdslink.ro References: <20050713112710.60204.qmail@web52902.mail.yahoo.com> <1121276077.4435.50.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1121276077.4435.50.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17802920.lr4cfdX63Z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507140958.00510.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart17802920.lr4cfdX63Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:34, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. I agree; optimising for this is just silly. Cheers, Con --nextPart17802920.lr4cfdX63Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQBC1aqIZUg7+tp6mRURAuDfAJ96n/h6e8aZtWAml2V0BM6VHbTBxwCY51Xl KTRg9uKxlOJX4xiaSRsvgQ== =3wNY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17802920.lr4cfdX63Z--