Re: New scheduling latencies during audio playing + heavy disk I/O on various kernels

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
16 Jun 1999 09:36:42 +0200


In article <cistron.99061600073100.00783@goblin.flashnet.it>,
Benno Senoner <sbenno@gardena.net> wrote:
>what helped alot is the remount of the disk in sync mode
>
>( mount / -oremount,sync )
>
>in this case the average scheduling latencies are very good
>between 16-19ms during the disk stressing tests.

So disk writing seems to be the bottleneck. Did you try optimizing the
disk (if it's IDE) with hdparm? hdparm -u 1 /dev/hda (READ THE MAN
PAGE FIRST)

Mike.

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