Re: 2.4.10-pre11: alsaplayer skiping during kernel build (-pre10 did not)

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:35:15PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Since I am not using md there are not that much changes left between
> > -pre10 and -pre11. Or do you think that it is caused by the console
> > locking changes?
> 
> certainly not from the console locking changes. Can you just go back to
> pre10 and verify you don't get those skips to just to be 100% sure the
> userspace config is the same?

Ok, -pre10 is ok. There xmms did hang once for about a second, and at that
time I was building a kernel (make -j4), reniced top, starting mozilla,
StarOffice, Netscape, mutt (reading in mailbox with >200 emails in qmail
format).

With -pre11 much less is required.

> The only scheduler change in pre11 is this one:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.10pre10aa1/00_sched-rt-fix-1
> 
> which should be infact a bugfix for rt threads, also discussed on l-k
> recently, so it's not clear how this odd regression happened.
> 
> You can try to back it out and see if helps just in case.

I will test this tomorrow and let you know about the results.

   JOgi

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