From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262947AbTIGKIx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 06:08:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262982AbTIGKIx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 06:08:53 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:5071 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262947AbTIGKIv (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 06:08:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:08:43 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Con Kolivas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 and below: Wine and XMMS problems Message-ID: <20030907100843.GM14436@fs.tum.de> References: <20030902231812.03fae13f.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030902231812.03fae13f.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:18:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > . Dropped out Con's CPU scheduler work, added Nick's. This is to help us > in evaluating the stability, efficacy and relative performance of Nick's > work. > > We're looking for feedback on the subjective behaviour and on the usual > server benchmarks please. >... Short story: I'm still using 2.5.72, all of the 2.6.0-test?{,-mm?} kernels have problems Long story: System: K6-2 @ 500 MHz 128 MB RAM 1 GB swap Debian unstable Workload: XFree86 FVWM XMMS Wine running "Master of Orion 2" (a round based space strategy game) With 2.4 kernels and 2.5.72 everything works fine. With 2.6.0-test? and 2.6.0-test?-mm? kernels up to 2.6.0-test4-mm4 the XMMS sound sometimes skips or sounds slow (like when wou manually retard a record). That's much more awful than skips. RAM usage is low, even after a "swapoff -a" at about half of my RAM would be enough. The problems might be related to the fact that after I start Wine three wine.bin processes run and each of them tries to get as much CPU time as possible. It might be part of the problem that although Wine is the interactive task a working XMMS is subjectively more important. With 2.6.0-test4-mm5 these problems don't occur. Instead, Wine feels slow. I couldn;t test it much since after the first fast mouse movement the X mouse cursor has lost the mouse cursor of the game (this might be a bug in Wine, but it doesnt occur with other kernels). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed