Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5 and below: Wine and XMMS problems

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 07:14:29 EST


On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:08, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:18:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > . Dropped out Con's CPU scheduler work, added Nick's. This is to help us
> > in evaluating the stability, efficacy and relative performance of
> > Nick's work.
> >
> > We're looking for feedback on the subjective behaviour and on the usual
> > server benchmarks please.
> >...
>
> Short story:
>
> I'm still using 2.5.72, all of the 2.6.0-test?{,-mm?} kernels have
> problems

What's your X and xmms nice values? Many X servers are reniced to -10 and some
shells spawn new apps at nice 5. After that the most common thing I find in
reports are upgrades to newer kernels losing hard disk dma at some stage (due
to config changes/movements) and it not being noticed.

Con

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