At 03:35 PM 6/30/2003 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
>Summary:
>A patch to reduce audio skipping and X jerking under load.
I took it out for a quick spin. It kills thud graveyard dead. That's the
good news, now for the bad ;-) With a make -j5 running, kasteroids
stutters enough to be pretty annoying. The patched kernel is making
booboos wrt cc1's priority often enough to nail kasteroids pretty
hard. The mouse pointer also jerks around quite a bit,...
>It's looking seriously like I'm talking to myelf here, but just in case there
>are lurkers testing this patch, there's a big bug that made it think jiffy
>wraparound was occurring so interactive tasks weren't receiving the boost
>they deserved. Here is a patch with the fix in.
>
>How to use if you're still thinking of testing:
>Use with Hz 1000, and use the granularity patch I posted as well for
>smoothing
>X off.
...but I'm not using that, because I wanted to see the pure effects of this
patch.
-Mike
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