On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:39:02 +0100 Sebastiaan van Erk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have major sound skipping problems on FreeBSD 6.0. I checked the > mailing list archives and found a related thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-June/051103.html > > To quote Jeff Roberson: > > > I have a patch that should greatly improve the sound skipping > > problems people have under heavy io load. Several people sent me > > traces that showed the buf daemon running for hundreds of > > milliseconds with Giant held, which can hold up the pcm code. > > The patch is available at: > > > > http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff > > The problems are definately correlated to io load, however I can't > say that I have HEAVY io loads. A simple: # sync;sync;sync; will > already cause the sound to skip. > > I have DMA enabled on all drives, and it seems the above patch is > already merged into FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. This leaves me at a loss, > and I don't know what else to try... > > Does anybody have any ideas of what I could do to solve this > problem? > > Recompile your kernel with "options PREEMPTION", and apply this patch:
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