Sound skipping problems

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:48:44 +0200
Simon Barner <barner at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Jeff Roberson wrote:
> > I have a patch that should greatly improve the sound skipping problems
> > people have under heavy io load.  Several people sent me traces that
> > showed the buf daemon running for hundreds of milliseconds with Giant
> > 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.

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

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