Re: [rc8] Regression: key repeats and skips in music during compilation

Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-07T09:21:20Z

On Sunday, 6 of April 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 4 of April 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> > While compiling glibc I am getting frequent short skips in music play
> > anddddddddddddddddd I have now three times seen key repeats (as in this
> > sentence). When there is a skip in the music, there is also a delay in
> > characters being typed appearing on the screen.
> >
> > I have not seen these symptoms with earlier rc releases (at least, not since
> > rc1), but I have not really done many heavy compilations recently, so I'd
> > have to spend some time to verify where this started.
> >
> > The problem seems somewhat different from what we had with rc1 as the mouse
> > is smooth.
> >
> > System is dual core Pentium D (x86_64). During the compilation one processor
> > core is basically idle. The music files are being read from an NFS share.
>
> Can you test with CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED unset, please?

I was able to reproduce this issue with -rc8 on one of my test systems, but I'm
not any more with the current Linus' tree and CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED unset, FWIW.

Thanks,
Rafael