On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:23:38AM -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Monday 11 March 2002 03:25 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > | On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 09:05:28PM +0100, BOUWSMA Beery wrote: > | > I built both a WITNESS and a WITNESSless kernel with more recent > | > k0deZ, and in the case of playing an mp3 file with `mpg123', I > | > saw practically no difference between the two, based on %cpu as > | > shown by `top' (like I say, completely unscientific and inaccurate) > | > | As you are no doubt aware there are significant infrastructural > | changes in -current relating to SMP scalability. It's in a very > | interim state at the moment, and one of the downsides is increased > | interrupt latency and lock contention for certain operations (yes, > | audio playback is one of them). > | > | Basically, it's a known issue. > > At -stable as well as -current or at -current only?
What I'm talking about is a -current issue only. I don't recall reading the earlier thread. Kris
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