Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265580AbUAZX1q (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:27:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265584AbUAZX1p (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:27:45 -0500 Received: from mail-07.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.39]:15816 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265580AbUAZX1l (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:27:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4015A24A.3090101@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:27:06 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange xmms deaths under high disk load References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2272 Lines: 57 M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: >I have encountered a very strange (to me, at least) error. I can >reliably cause xmms to crash by simply doing some intensive disk IO. >Copying a few hundred megabytes usually does it. After about 20 >seconds of heavy disk IO, xmms will die with this message: > >** WARNING **: snd_pcm_wait: Input/output error >Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x2ef5c)! > >The hex number varies. > >The machine is an Alpha SX164 running Linux 2.6.2-rc2 patched up to >ALSA 1.0.1. The problem has been around for quite a while, probably >also with kernel 2.4.21, though I can't confirm that at the moment. >The sound card is a cmi8738. > >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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/