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Subject: Re: 2.6.37-08009-ge6f597a "feels" slow - rhythmbox skips audio
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:33:07 -0800
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On 01/18/2011 04:09 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> hi,
>
> kernel version 2.6.37-08009-ge6f597a "feels" slow and background audio
> skips/stalls when performing some cpu (and/or io?) intensive tasks like
> a kernel compile or grepping for a string in the kernel source or
> upgrading the system via yum upgrade.
>
> I didn't see this behaviour with 2.6.37 (and previous versions) on my UP
> system.

I see the same on my UP machine (but not SMP) when using the new
SCHED_AUTOGROUP feature.  Do you have that enabled?