Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:11:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Greg Alexander <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.28 breaks gus sound |
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> > The GUS driver has not changed at all since early 2.0.x versions (2.0.10 > > or so). In fact it has remained almost unchanged since Linux 1.0.x days. > > Hm, stepping through patch-2.0.28 shows that most of the changes concern > the new vm86-syscall and the dgrs network-driver and some of the > scsi-drivers. Nothing really sound-related, I think. However, there's a > change in vmscan.c. Since this is the only change that affects the > system behaviour in general, I wonder if it could be *it* ?-)
These changes are part of a patch to force kswapd to give some time to user processes in times of heavy swapping, to avoid death from fork bombs.
Greg Alexander http://www.cia-g.com/~sietch/
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