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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:47:27 +0200
From:      Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        barner@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sound skipping problems
Message-ID:  <20050608164727.6a5b76f9.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050608095624.J16943@mail.chesapeake.net>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:57:15 -0400 (EDT)
Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
>=20
> > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:48:44 +0200
> > Simon Barner <barner@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff Roberson wrote:
> > > > I have a patch that should greatly improve the sound skipping probl=
ems
> > > > people have under heavy io load.  Several people sent me traces that
> > > > showed the buf daemon running for hundreds of milliseconds with Gia=
nt
> > > > held, which can hold up the pcm code.  The patch is available at:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Can I use the patch on 5.4-STABLE? It applies cleanly (with offset,
> > > though), but I prefer to ask before doing useless tests.
> >
> > I've just tested it on 5.4-RELEASE, and it causes the system to hang
> > after a few seconds of heavy disk I/O.
>=20
> I have updated the patch to partially revert some earlier behavior.  The
> hang didn't happen on my machine because I have more memory, but I'm
> confident of the cause.  I updated it in place, feel free to try it on
> current or 5.x.

This one works, and completely removes the sound jitter that used to
appear under heavy disk I/O (eg. untarring a 50 megs tarball).

Congratulations!

PS: if no problems show up, do you intend to MFC this patch?

--=20
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort@FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/

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