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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clock skips (?) with 2.6 and games
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:01:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031103110129.GF1772@x30.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA62DD4.1020202@portrix.net>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:28:36AM +0100, Jan Dittmer wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing skips in games like q3demo and enemy territory on a
> dual xeon p4. That means, if I'm walking around, about every 2-3 seconds
> I'm skipping a bit of the way. It seems that the clock is running too
> slow and the games are trying to catch up every x seconds with the
> system time.
> System is running 2.6.0-test9-mm1. This effect does not show with
> 2.4.23pre6aa3, though there are only two processors displayed. Is this

btw, to make it even better for a desktop multimedia usage like yours,
you can also pass 'desktop' to the 2.4.23pre6aa3 kernel. I'd like to
hear how 'desktop' affects your usage in 2.4.23pre6aa3.

thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-03 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-03 10:28 Clock skips (?) with 2.6 and games Jan Dittmer
2003-11-03 10:34 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-03 15:48   ` Jan Dittmer
2003-11-04  2:37   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-04  2:59     ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-04  3:07       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-03 11:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2003-11-03 11:21   ` Jan Dittmer
2003-11-03 14:36     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-03 15:44       ` Jan Dittmer
2003-11-03 16:11         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-11-03 16:44           ` Jan Dittmer
2003-11-03 16:59           ` Jan Dittmer
2003-11-04  2:40         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-04 10:22           ` Andrea Arcangeli

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