Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:41:53 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10-pre11: alsaplayer skiping during kernel build (-pre10 did not) |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On 18 Sep 2001 17:51:04 +0200 jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote: > > > > You can try to back it out and see if helps just in case. > > > > Ok Andrea, > > > > I will test and let you know about the findings but I am afraid I can not > > test this today. But I will let you know. Btw. xmms is skipping like mad > > too. > > Hello, > > just my experience in this topic: > I worked on -pre11 for one complete day after massive nfs server usage, no > problems so far. > current meminfo looks like: > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 923574272 865853440 57720832 0 66609152 629137408 > Swap: 271392768 434176 270958592 > MemTotal: 901928 kB > MemFree: 56368 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 65048 kB > Cached: 614240 kB > SwapCached: 152 kB > Active: 671956 kB > Inactive: 7484 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 901928 kB > LowFree: 56368 kB > SwapTotal: 265032 kB > SwapFree: 264608 kB > > I currently compile kernel with -j 5 while playing mp3s via xmms without the > slightest problem (xosview load is now 8). I tried xmms run as root and user, > makes no difference. I tried starting applications (like mozilla or > applixware), no problem. No mouse hangs or anything else negative. I am _not_ > using alsa, but emu10k1 from kernel. > I couldn't even make it crash or skip in xmms while singing Torn together with > Natalie - and listening to that _is_ real stress :-)) > > You only have to find some strategy to come around these formerly noticed alloc > failures, perhaps by an idea to free up pages instantly if an alloc would fail > otherwise (now). I like the overall performance very much, Andrea.
I'm very happy to hear this ;).
I now have an update ready for Linus to merge that should fix the few leftovers I had in the very first release of the vm rewrite but of course I will be interested to hear about any regression/progression about those changes, I'll post them in a few minutes in CC to l-k.
They're still untested on the >1G boxes but the oom problems weren't specific to highmem so it should fix the highmem troubles too.
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