Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 04:54:16 -0700 From: Travis Poppe <tlpbsd@gmail.com> To: Simon Barner <barner@freebsd.org> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound skipping problems Message-ID: <9533da6c05060804542aa62382@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050608104844.GA24060@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20050607210453.S16943@mail.chesapeake.net> <20050608104844.GA24060@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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On 6/8/05, Simon Barner <barner@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 >=20 > [...] >=20 > Can I use the patch on 5.4-STABLE? It applies cleanly (with offset, > though), but I prefer to ask before doing useless tests. >=20 > 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
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