Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4) | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:28:09 +1100 |
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 04:52 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> So ... is there any easy way I can diagnose this? Does anyone else have > >> a similar problem? > > > > Most of us who have worked with an O(1) scheduler based kernel have found > > this at various times. See the previous discussion with akpm about the > > interactivity estimator. Akpm found that decreasing the maximum timeslice > > duration would blunt the effect of the interactivity estimator giving > > preference to the "wrong" task. In 2.4.20-ck4 I avoid this problem with > > the "desktop tuning" of making the max timeslice==min timeslice. Try an > > -mm kernel with the scheduler tunables patch and try playing with the > > max timeslice. Most have found that <=25 will usually stop these skips. > > The default max timeslice of 300ms is just too long for the desktop and > > interactivity estimator. > > Heh, cool. I have the same patch in my tree too, fixed it without rebooting > even ;-) Still a *tiny* bit of skipping, but infinitely better than it was.
Try decreasing prio_bonus_ratio to 15 as well
> Thanks very much,
Pleasure
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