Messages in this thread |  | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:46:25 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag, 23. September 2001 01:40 schrieb safemode: > ok. The preemption patch helps realtime applications in linux be a little > more close to realtime. I understand that. But your mp3 player shouldn't > need root permission or renicing or realtime priority flags to play mp3s. > To test how well the latency patches are working you should be running > things all at the same priority. The main issue people are having with > skipping mp3s is not in the decoding of the mp3 or in the retrieving of the > file, it's in the playing in the soundcard. That's being affected by > dbench flooding the system with irq requests. I'm inclined to believe it's > irq requests because the _only_ time i have problems with mp3s (and i dont > change priority levels) is when A. i do a cdparanoia -Z -B "1-" or > dbench 32. I bet if someone did these tests on scsi hardware with the > latency patch, they'd find much better results than us users of ide > devices.
Nope. If you would have read (all) posts about this and related threads you should have noticed that I am and others running SCSI systems...
> > even i dont get any skips when i run the player at nice -n -20.
During dbench 16/32 and higher? Are you sure?
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