From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 11 00:01:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA48516A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:01:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7961C43D31 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:01:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 710EC72DD4; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:01:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE8972DCB; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:01:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:01:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Krzysztof Kowalik In-Reply-To: <20041209172941.GA29369@uci.agh.edu.pl> Message-ID: <20041210155518.O63382@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20041207234840.7287cdf4@maya.liquidx.org> <1102506431.1090.8.camel@taxman> <41B6ED4E.6030301@fer.hr> <20041209172941.GA29369@uci.agh.edu.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD sound distortion problems with SB Live! fixed with PREEMPTION X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:01:31 -0000 On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: > Ivan Voras [ivoras@fer.hr] wrote: > > [...] > > Not exactly a freeze, but PREEMPTION doesn't help me at all with SB Live > > (slowdowns, stuttering sound, etc.), especially with large amounts of > > filesystem operations (this is 5-stable). > > Exactly. I tried to use both emu10k1 and emu10kx drivers, with kernel > with and without PREEMPTION, and both 5.x and 6.0 serie did behave same. > Intensive I/O made the system quite unusable, and it was not only a > sound-related issue, but a general one -- slow, lagging mouse in X, etc. I purchased a SBLive 5.1 and ran tests with it in a Dell PowerEdge 1750 (2x2.4GHz Xeon) the last time we had complaints about sound jitteryness and I wasn't able to reproduce it, even with heavy buildworld load. Guess its time to pull the card out and give it another try (after I just pulled it out of the machine yesterday...) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org