Re: 2.4.10-ac10-preempt lmbench output.

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:42:54 -0700


On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:22:20PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Now dbench (or any task) is in kernel space for too long. The CPU time
> > xmms needs will of course still be given, but _too late_. Its just not
> > a cpu resource problem, its a timing problem. xmms needs x units of CPU
> > every y units of time. Just getting the x whenever is not enough.
>
> Yep, with
>
> x = 60msec
> y = 600msec
>
> So you can give it time up to 540msec late with no drop-outs.
>

How fast was the processor/memory on the system that produced these numbers?

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