Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265338AbUAZXuD (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:50:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265588AbUAZXrL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:47:11 -0500 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:7389 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265338AbUAZXpS (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:45:18 -0500 To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange xmms deaths under high disk load References: <4015A24A.3090101@cyberone.com.au> From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:45:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4015A24A.3090101@cyberone.com.au> (Nick Piggin's message of "Tue,: 27:06 +1100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1955 Lines: 48 Nick Piggin 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. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@kth.se - 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/