Re: Sound skipping problems

From: Travis Poppe <tlpbsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 04:54:16 -0700
On 6/8/05, Simon Barner <barner_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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
> 
> [...]
> 
> Can I use the patch on 5.4-STABLE? It applies cleanly (with offset,
> though), but I prefer to ask before doing useless tests.
> 
> Simon

I tried this patch on 5.4-RELEASE and it caused audio playback to halt
under heavy I/O load (extracting firefox).

Other odd system behavior was also present.

-Travis Poppe
Received on Wed Jun 08 2005 - 09:54:19 UTC

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