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Subject: Re: 2.4.10-ac10-preempt lmbench output.
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:22:20PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Now dbench (or any task) is in kernel space for too long.  The CPU time
> > xmms needs will of course still be given, but _too late_.  Its just not
> > a cpu resource problem, its a timing problem.  xmms needs x units of CPU
> > every y units of time.  Just getting the x whenever is not enough.
> 
> Yep, with
> 
> x = 60msec
> y = 600msec
>
> So you can give it time up to 540msec late with no drop-outs.
> 

How fast was the processor/memory on the system that produced these numbers?

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