Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:36:12 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Aaron Lehmann wrote:

> > okay, could you please test BK-curr, or 2.5.64+combo-patch? Do the skips
> > still persist? Did they get worse perhaps? I guess it might take a few
> > days of music listening while doing normal desktop activity, to get a good
> > feel of it though.
>
> I was able to reproduce them by selecting text in Mathematica (ugh, not
> a very helpful example). The skips were shorter and about three times as
> hard to trigger as on 2.5.63.

okay, just as a data point, could you try to renice the player
process/thread to -2? Does it make the skipping harder to trigger?
How about -5, or -10?

Ingo

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