On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: > Ivan Voras [ivoras_at_fer.hr] wrote: > > [...] > > Not exactly a freeze, but PREEMPTION doesn't help me at all with SB Live > > (slowdowns, stuttering sound, etc.), especially with large amounts of > > filesystem operations (this is 5-stable). > > Exactly. I tried to use both emu10k1 and emu10kx drivers, with kernel > with and without PREEMPTION, and both 5.x and 6.0 serie did behave same. > Intensive I/O made the system quite unusable, and it was not only a > sound-related issue, but a general one -- slow, lagging mouse in X, etc. I purchased a SBLive 5.1 and ran tests with it in a Dell PowerEdge 1750 (2x2.4GHz Xeon) the last time we had complaints about sound jitteryness and I wasn't able to reproduce it, even with heavy buildworld load. Guess its time to pull the card out and give it another try (after I just pulled it out of the machine yesterday...) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Dec 10 2004 - 23:01:31 UTC
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