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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:42:27 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
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Subject: Re: xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4)
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>> > the  "desktop tuning" of making the max timeslice==min timeslice. Try an
>> > -mm  kernel with the scheduler tunables patch and try playing with the
>> > max  timeslice. Most have found that <=25 will usually stop these skips.
>> > The  default max timeslice of 300ms is just too long for the desktop and 
>> > interactivity estimator.
>> 
>> Heh, cool. I have the same patch in my tree too, fixed it without rebooting
>> even ;-) Still a *tiny* bit of skipping, but infinitely better than it was.
> 
> Fixed without rebooting? You binary-patched
> kernel or what?
> 				Pavel

Nope, the sched tunables patch from Robert (which is in -mjb and -mm, 
so I was already running) exposes those parameters out to userspace 
for sysctl to change ... I just ran sysctl once, and it was done ;-)

M.
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