Subject: Re: jerky interactive behavior -- a clue?
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2007 21:02:54
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:52:13 -0500
"Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I cannot say for sure that this has any bearing on what you're
> experiencing, but recently I've noticed my audio skipping again during
> periods of heavy I/O.  Initially, when yamt@ committed iplraisespl(),
> this stopped completely.   Now it seems to be back again.  I really
> have no idea what to do to investigate this.
> 
> What brought this to mind is that this always seems to happen when I
> am doing large CVS operations, viz. heavy I/O involving network and
> disk use.
> 
Perry has reported the same thing.  I haven't noticed that.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb