Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-24 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
(Stuff about sound skippage & mouse jerkiness snipped) >I'm getting this too, in fact even pcmplay (about as minimalistic as you >can get) skips a lot and often throws hwptr went backwards. Oh yeah, I'm >using an AWE64 PnP as well. Making the sound buffer 32K instead of 4K (like a related threa

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-24 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:43:27PM +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > The messages did not start with SMPNG but got a *lot* more frequent in the > last couple of weeks, making listening to mp3-s a real annoyance during any > more serious system activity. (Earlier, ie in the early fall and in the >

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-21 Thread Scott Worley
(just a little extra info) Scheduler issues have been present since at least 20001112-current. I installed the snapshot as my first venture into the current tree. Mp3 skippage and loopage was very bad. The box in question is an amd k6-2 300 (lower than average in this list, i gather). Mp3 decodi

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Szilveszter Adam
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:35:40AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Maybe it should be self tuning according to the speed of the data. > I don't understand why the hwptr would go backwards due to system load.. > if this is an underflow, then the message should say so... Just FYI, I also get this

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Julian Elischer
Stanislav Grozev wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:37:39PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > > pcm0: at port >0x220-0x22f,0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x330-0x331,0x370-0x371 irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0 > > > > It could be due to my commit in which I reduced buffer size in mss driver from 64K >to 4K.

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Stanislav Grozev
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:37:39PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > pcm0: at port >0x220-0x22f,0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x330-0x331,0x370-0x371 irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0 > > It could be due to my commit in which I reduced buffer size in mss driver from 64K >to 4K. Please try to increase it to 8KB,

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Julian Elischer
Stanislav Grozev wrote: > > Hi, > today I upgraded my 5.0-CURRENT from PRE_SMPNG to -current from about 5-6 > hours. everything went fine, the system is working, but I now notice the > following: whenever I compile something (say a port) and play an mp3 > in xmms at the same time, the mp3 playing

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Stanislav Grozev wrote: > as a followup, whenever I have disk access the problem shows also... > > > > pcm0: at port >0x220-0x22f,0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x330-0x331,0x370-0x371 irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0 It could be due to my commit in which I reduced buffer size in mss driver from 64K to 4K. Ple

Re: -current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Stanislav Grozev
as a followup, whenever I have disk access the problem shows also... On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:23:26PM +0200, Stanislav Grozev wrote: > Hi, > today I upgraded my 5.0-CURRENT from PRE_SMPNG to -current from about 5-6 > hours. everything went fine, the system is working, but I now notice the > fo

-current scheduler strangeness

2000-11-20 Thread Stanislav Grozev
Hi, today I upgraded my 5.0-CURRENT from PRE_SMPNG to -current from about 5-6 hours. everything went fine, the system is working, but I now notice the following: whenever I compile something (say a port) and play an mp3 in xmms at the same time, the mp3 playing is frequently interrupted, or loops