Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:07:32 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 and Warcraft III - WineX |
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Tony Jones wrote:
>In my testing of recent kernels 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test4-mm4 (mm6 >wouldn't cooperate with X for some reason and I didn't do much >investigation) I've experied an easily replicable and highly annoying >problem with Warcraft III and WineX 3.1 (prebuilt). > >After playing 1 or 2 games, or leaving the game idle in the chat room, >the sound will eventually start to stutter and chop badly. In the >presence of this incredibly bad sound, the mouse and game respond just >fine (kudos to the scheduler on that point). Considering the game is >played in "real-time" and is full of audio cues I hate to imagine that >Con's scheduler will be the "official" scheduler of 2.6 without having >this issue addressed. > >The kernels I use are tainted with nvidia's video drivers, 1.0.4496. > >Nick's scheduler in 2.6.0-test4-mm5 seems to be the only thing capable >of correcting this problem. In general operation, mm5's scheduler >seems better at handling about everything I threw at it, with a rare >xmms skip once in a week of use. > >I'm not a developer but I'd love some feedback and or questions to >help figure out why this happens with Con's scheduler patches in mm4 >and test5 to help improve 2.6.0 altogether. >
Actually, I'd love some feedback from you. Use this: http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v14/sched-rollup-v14.gz It will apply against 2.6.0-test4 or test5 (not mm). See how you go.
Thanks
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