Sound skipping problems

[Travis Poppe]

On 6/8/05, 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.
> 
> Simon

I tried this patch on 5.4-RELEASE and it caused audio playback to halt
under heavy I/O load (extracting firefox).

Other odd system behavior was also present.

-Travis Poppe