Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:44:11 -0400 | | From | Timothy Miller <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O10int for interactivity |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Well.,.. it turns out I was half right, sort of. My remaining glitches *were* > I/O related rather than the CPU scheduler. However, they weren't directly > related to the /sys/block/hda/queue/iosched/* values. > > Turns out that at least on this laptop, 256M is just a bit tight on memory under > some conditions (well... OK... having X and xmms running, and then doing a > 'tar xjvf linux-2.6.0-test1.tar.bz2' and launching OpenOffice 1.1rc1 all at once > is probably a stress test and a half ;). > > Watching /proc/vmstat, it became obvious that audio skips were happening *only* > when 'pswpout' was going up - which means somebody's waiting on a page *IN* > that won't happen till another page goes *out* to swap first..... > > Time for more pondering.. ;)
Heh... can we prioritize swapping based on interactivity information? :)
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