Re: Audio skipping with 2.6.24.4 and 2.6.25-rc9

["Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>]

On Sat 12.Apr'08 at 20:19:55 +0000, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:19:14 -0300, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> 
> > But in the log you uploaded you have only two se.wait_max greater than
> > 40 msecs
> > 
> > [mafra@localhost:~]$ grep se.wait_max cfs-debug-info-2008.04.12-18.00.20
> > |awk '{ {if ($3 > 40.000000) print $3} }' 44.153039
> > 50.841370
> > 
> > As these numbers are only a bit greater than 40, I guess your problem is
> > not related to the CFS scheduler.
> > 
> > Can you try latencytop? ( www.latencytop.org )
> 
> I'm not too sure how I should use latencytop and interpret its results. I 
> start latencytop, and reproduce the problem while rhythmbox is playing. It 
> seems that it automatically changes the selected application in the bottom 
> list after a few seconds, probably based on the CPU usage, where it 
> selects most of the time either compiz or X. The upper half of latencytop 
> is always empty, for all applications. In the lower half, it shows for all 
> applications something like:
> 
> Process X (7972)
> Scheduler: waiting for cpu     43.5 msec         43.5 msec
> 
> Only the times differ between the different processes.

Did you try with the git version of latencytop?
I remember that once I downloaded latencytop from the website 
and the upper half of latencytop was also always empty, and
that the git version was better and showed the latencies.