On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:32:12PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > I have a patch that should greatly improve the sound skipping problems > > people have under heavy io load. Several people sent me traces that > > showed the buf daemon running for hundreds of milliseconds with Giant > > held, which can hold up the pcm code. The patch is available at: > > > > http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff > > > > This changes flushbufqueues to flush multiple buffers instead of one > > buffer at a time. It also places buffers we failed to flush at the end of > > the list, and uses a sentinal to track our progress through the list. > > This almost entirely solved the skipping problem for me. Depending on > > user feedback we can do a little more to reduce the time spent processing > > here. > > > > Unfortunatly, it seems that it doesn't show much difference. > HW: Gateway Solo 5300(UP, P3 700MHz, maestro3 driver) Well, it helps out on my machine. I need to investigate a little further. At the moment, this seems to have problems after a while under load. I'll put this in my queue of things to look at though. Thanks, Jeff > > As soon as I started to extract mozilla source the sound playing > stopped and the system seems to be freezed. > (No response from keyboard input except showing ^C.) > It seems that there is no difference with/without witness. > -- > Regards, > Pyun YongHyeon > http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari | yongari_at_freebsd.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Wed Jun 08 2005 - 04:49:40 UTC
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