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

[Nick Piggin]

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
>
>
> Long story:
>
> System:
> K6-2 @ 500 MHz
> 128 MB RAM
> 1 GB swap
> Debian unstable
>
> Workload:
> XFree86
> FVWM
> XMMS
> Wine running "Master of Orion 2" (a round based space strategy game)
>
> With 2.4 kernels and 2.5.72 everything works fine.
>
> With 2.6.0-test? and 2.6.0-test?-mm? kernels up to 2.6.0-test4-mm4 the
> XMMS sound sometimes skips or sounds slow (like when wou manually retard
> a record). That's much more awful than skips.
>
> RAM usage is low, even after a "swapoff -a" at about half of my RAM
> would be enough.
>
> The problems might be related to the fact that after I start Wine three
> wine.bin processes run and each of them tries to get as much CPU time as
> possible.
>
> It might be part of the problem that although Wine is the interactive 
> task a working XMMS is subjectively more important.
>
> With 2.6.0-test4-mm5 these problems don't occur. Instead, Wine feels 
> slow. I couldn;t test it much since after the first fast mouse movement 
> the X mouse cursor has lost the mouse cursor of the game (this might be 
> a bug in Wine, but it doesnt occur with other kernels).
>
> cu
> Adrian

Hi Adrian,
It would be great if you could test the latest mm kernel (mm6 as of now
I think), which has Con's latest stuff in it. You could also test my
newest scheduler patch. Thanks for the feedback.


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