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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:31:42 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: jogi@planetzork.ping.de
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Subject: Re: 2.4.10-pre11: alsaplayer skiping during kernel build (-pre10 did not)
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:25:29PM +0200, jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:14:16PM +0200, jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote:
> > Hello Andrea,
> > 
> > I gave your new vm a try and I have to report a problem. System is an
> > Athlon 1200 with 256MB memory. Workload:
> 
> Sorry to follow up on my own. But the problem seems to be worse than I
> first thought. Kernel build is the first thing I test when I try a new
> kernel :-)
> 
> So now I logged into X and even during starting of Mozilla or normal
> web browsing alsaplayer is skiping *lots*. The system is not into swap
> and has about 150MB cached. Just to let you know ...
> 
> I guess I will go back to -pre10 now. If you want to let me test some
> things just let me know.

just make sure not to renice top at -10. Are you sure you reniced top at
-10 also with pre10? Those issues shouldn't really vm related. I also
profiled the new vm well and it never showed up in the toplist so I
suspect you changed something in userspace. and of course I run xmms all
the time too and it didn't skept one sample yet.


Andrea