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Subject: Re: 2.4.10-ac10-preempt lmbench output.
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 23:57, Dieter N?tzel wrote:
> Robert you are running a dual PIII system, right?
> Could that be the ground why you aren't see the hiccup with your nice preempt
> patch? Are you running ReiserFS or EXT2/3?

No, I am on a single P3-733.  I am using ext3.

I have had reports from users on both UP and SMP systems that say audio
playback is undisturbed during heavy I/O with preempt-kernel patch.  Of
course, I don't know their definition of undisturbed...but I would wager
it doesn't include 2-3s skips.

	Robert Love

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