[PlanetCCRMA] Configuring 2.6.11-0.3.rdt.rhfc2.ccrma for 0 xruns...

Mark Knecht Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Wed Apr 13 11:42:01 2005


On 13 Apr 2005 11:11:15 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

>   cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
> 
> in my fc3 laptop this is "500", which would be 5 seconds so it does not
> match the period you are seeing.
> 
> [see:
> http://edseek.com/archives/2004/07/12/linux-26-vm-procsysvm-tunables/]
> 
> ...
> 
> a few minutes later: BUT
>   cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
> yields "3000" which is 30 seconds!
> Try changing that to a lower value:
>   echo "1000"> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisec
> 

Still the same number of xruns, approximately, with
dirty_expire_centisecs at 1000.

I have not yet played with the chrt stuff.

Thanks,
Mark