From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263806AbTLTEcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263809AbTLTEcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:32:18 -0500 Received: from mail-04.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.36]:18332 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263806AbTLTEcQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:32:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE3D0CB.603@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:32:11 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Meder CC: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4 regression when running gnomemeeting References: <1071864709.1044.172.camel@localhost> <1071885178.1044.227.camel@localhost> <3FE3B61C.4070204@cyberone.com.au> <200312201355.08116.kernel@kolivas.org> <1071891168.1044.256.camel@localhost> <3FE3C6FC.7050401@cyberone.com.au> <1071893802.1363.21.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1071893802.1363.21.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christian Meder wrote: >On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 04:50, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>(although not much Con) >> > >right. Ok I'm running now 2.6.0 with Nick's v28p1: The results without >load and with kernel compile load are attached. On nice level 0 I get >now the stuttering sound which I described in the previous mail. When I >renice gnomemeeting to -10 it's actually usable but not as good as in >2.4.2x. It's still sensitive to window movement and X activity. Two >subjective observations are that the nice levels haven't got such a big >impact in Nick's scheduler they used to have and that the default >behaviour gnomemeetingwise is better than in earlier Nick schedulers. > No, nice levels don't have such a big impact. That is the last big think I have to fix, but thats another story... At nice -10, there is basically nothing more the scheduler can do for it (nice -20 will be a tiny bit better again). I'd say its due to either sound drivers or your app doing something different when running in 2.6. > > >>This might be a problem - try turning unmaskirq on, and possibly >>32-bit IO support on (hdparm -u1 -c1 /dev/hda). I think there is >>a remote possibility that doing this will corrupt your data just >>to let you know. >> > >Tried it and doesn't make a difference. > dang > >>So the 1 gnomemeeting process is doing everything? (except display of >>course) >> > >AFAIK yes. > >