Re: Strange xmms deaths under high disk load

[Måns Rullgård]

Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>If I play music with TCVP instead, it keeps playing, but sound is
>>choppy at intervals.  Below is vmstat output during a copying.
>>
>>procs ---------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
>> r  b swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0    66    66   24     4 23 23 54  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0     0 1131  1352 17 14 69  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0     0 1128  1360 13  4 84  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0     0 1129  1351 13  4 84  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0   153 1142  1361 14  3 83  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0     0 1127  1353 14  4 83  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0     0 1128  1348 12  3 84  0
>> 0  0    0  86128   3424 165920    0    0     0     0 1130  1344 17 15 69  0
>> 0  0    0  86000   3424 166048    0    0   128     0 1132  1356 13  3 84  0
>>
> ...
>
>>11  2    0   2400   3392 246368    0    0   768 26112  969   626 25 71  0  3
>>
> ...
>
>>11  0    0   3040   1704 248160    0    0     0 33704  696    58 10 90  0  0
>>
> ...
>
>>
>> 1  1    0   2528   1736 250608    0    0  1756 21332  965   590 35 56  0  8
>>
>
> Looks like you might be losing timer interrupts, possibly caused by
> an IDE disk doing PIO?

All the disks are doing ATA-100, so that's not it.  Something else
could have caused it, of course.  Rather bad of xmms to crash, too.

What worries me most is the file corruption I saw in connection with
one such crash.  It hasn't happened again, though.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx
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