On Monday 21 March 2005 18:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2.6.11-mm2 seems to work, mostly.
>
>If you've tested 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 can you please send an update on
> your woes to linux-kernel?
Ok, got it built ok, but the reboot was hell, not of your doing
though. Someone had told me I could put a '-V' in a file
called /fsckoptions and I'd get a bit more verbosity out of e2fsck.
I thought that might be a good thing and put an echo statement in my
rc.local to regenerate that file. Yup, attack of dumbass. I'd used
the esc sequence to put an EOL on it, but that translated to a file
containing '-V\n' which wasn't legal, so after looping around thru
the reboot and dropping you to a shell thingies, and finding that I
couldn't remount it rw under any circumstances I grabbed the rescue
cd and got rid of all that. So I'm just now rebooted to it. So far
it feels pretty good.
tvtime works, no audio glitches in the startup. This is a pcHDTV-3000
card, running in Never Twice Same Color mode as yet.
xsane works normally I believe, doing a preview scan ok.
kino works, but doesn't really want to time share with the much cpu
hungrier tvtime, this results a very noticeable lag in the preview
video coming in directly from the cameras imager via firewire, and
sometimes an outright freeze of 2-3 seconds duration when kmail is
makeing a mail fetch run.
spcagui works once I'd reinstalled the spca50x stuff
/. pops right up in mozilla-1.7.5, also in firefox
Those seem to be the main things of interest right now, to me.
Anything else I should specifically check on this UP machine?
As I add content to this message, I am occasionally seeing lags
between what I type and its showing up on the screen but its
certainly better than 2.6.10 or 11 was by quite a ways. This is
related to the kino lags in that I believe its kmail's net access
that is causeing them.
Overall, I don't have any instant squawks Andrew. Looks good,
generally feels good. Itches might develop later though. I'm using
the cfq scheduler, were there any changes of note there?
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Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> tvtime works, no audio glitches in the startup. This is a pcHDTV-3000
> card, running in Never Twice Same Color mode as yet.
>
> xsane works normally I believe, doing a preview scan ok.
Whew.
> kino works, but doesn't really want to time share with the much cpu
> hungrier tvtime, this results a very noticeable lag in the preview
> video coming in directly from the cameras imager via firewire, and
> sometimes an outright freeze of 2-3 seconds duration when kmail is
> makeing a mail fetch run.
Is that unexpected? Are there other kernels which you found better behaved
in this regard? There are CPU scheduler changes in -mm, but they're
unlikely to affect UP or small SMP.
> spcagui works once I'd reinstalled the spca50x stuff
>
> /. pops right up in mozilla-1.7.5, also in firefox
>
> Those seem to be the main things of interest right now, to me.
>
> Anything else I should specifically check on this UP machine?
>
> As I add content to this message, I am occasionally seeing lags
> between what I type and its showing up on the screen but its
> certainly better than 2.6.10 or 11 was by quite a ways. This is
> related to the kino lags in that I believe its kmail's net access
> that is causeing them.
hm, OK. Is much disk I/O happening during the lags?
> Overall, I don't have any instant squawks Andrew. Looks good,
> generally feels good. Itches might develop later though. I'm using
> the cfq scheduler, were there any changes of note there?
Relative to 2.6.121-mm2? Yes, CFQ underwent radical changes.
On Monday 21 March 2005 21:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ...
>> tvtime works, no audio glitches in the startup. This is a
>> pcHDTV-3000 card, running in Never Twice Same Color mode as yet.
>>
>> xsane works normally I believe, doing a preview scan ok.
>
>Whew.
:)
>> kino works, but doesn't really want to time share with the much
>> cpu hungrier tvtime, this results a very noticeable lag in the
>> preview video coming in directly from the cameras imager via
>> firewire, and sometimes an outright freeze of 2-3 seconds duration
>> when kmail is makeing a mail fetch run.
>
>Is that unexpected?
No.
>Are there other kernels which you found better
> behaved in this regard? There are CPU scheduler changes in -mm,
> but they're unlikely to affect UP or small SMP.
Only 2.6.12-rc1 is comparable in "feel", and it will take me a while
to reach a conclusion. Stay tuned...
>> spcagui works once I'd reinstalled the spca50x stuff
>>
>> /. pops right up in mozilla-1.7.5, also in firefox
>>
>> Those seem to be the main things of interest right now, to me.
>>
>> Anything else I should specifically check on this UP machine?
>>
>> As I add content to this message, I am occasionally seeing lags
>> between what I type and its showing up on the screen but its
>> certainly better than 2.6.10 or 11 was by quite a ways. This is
>> related to the kino lags in that I believe its kmail's net access
>> that is causeing them.
>
>hm, OK. Is much disk I/O happening during the lags?
Not really, its spamassassins &^%$#@ perl scripts that are eating the
cpu I think.
>> Overall, I don't have any instant squawks Andrew. Looks good,
>> generally feels good. Itches might develop later though. I'm
>> using the cfq scheduler, were there any changes of note there?
>
>Relative to 2.6.121-mm2? Yes, CFQ underwent radical changes.
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Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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