Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:20:36 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime, now 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 |
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On Monday 21 March 2005 21:56, Andrew Morton wrote: >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: >> ... >> tvtime works, no audio glitches in the startup. This is a >> pcHDTV-3000 card, running in Never Twice Same Color mode as yet. >> >> xsane works normally I believe, doing a preview scan ok. > >Whew.
:)
>> kino works, but doesn't really want to time share with the much >> cpu hungrier tvtime, this results a very noticeable lag in the >> preview video coming in directly from the cameras imager via >> firewire, and sometimes an outright freeze of 2-3 seconds duration >> when kmail is makeing a mail fetch run. > >Is that unexpected?
No.
>Are there other kernels which you found better > behaved in this regard? There are CPU scheduler changes in -mm, > but they're unlikely to affect UP or small SMP.
Only 2.6.12-rc1 is comparable in "feel", and it will take me a while to reach a conclusion. Stay tuned...
>> spcagui works once I'd reinstalled the spca50x stuff >> >> /. pops right up in mozilla-1.7.5, also in firefox >> >> Those seem to be the main things of interest right now, to me. >> >> Anything else I should specifically check on this UP machine? >> >> As I add content to this message, I am occasionally seeing lags >> between what I type and its showing up on the screen but its >> certainly better than 2.6.10 or 11 was by quite a ways. This is >> related to the kino lags in that I believe its kmail's net access >> that is causeing them. > >hm, OK. Is much disk I/O happening during the lags?
Not really, its spamassassins &^%$#@ perl scripts that are eating the cpu I think.
>> Overall, I don't have any instant squawks Andrew. Looks good, >> generally feels good. Itches might develop later though. I'm >> using the cfq scheduler, were there any changes of note there? > >Relative to 2.6.121-mm2? Yes, CFQ underwent radical changes. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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