Thanks Rui Nuno Capela! A patch was attached to fix this problem on Musix. Un parche para solucionar este problema en Musix está adjuntado, utilizarlo, gracias: | Marcos Guglielmetti wrote: | > Hi | > | > | > I was wandering if rtirq was working well here on Musix, see: | > | > Linux musix1.0R2b1 2.6.21.5-rt18 #2 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jun 29 19:55:08 | > EEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux | > | > | > rtirq start | > | > rtirq status | > | > PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND | > 47 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-9 | > 226 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-8 | > 249 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S< IRQ-14 | > 252 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-15 | > 325 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-12 | > 326 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-1 | > 587 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S< IRQ-10 | > 594 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-5 | > 929 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-6 | > 1040 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-11 | > 1071 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-7 | > | > | > It seems to work fine: JACK does not gives me any xrun... | | It does seem that rtirq is NOT working at all, 8-) | or in other words, is | not touching the IRQ threads priorities. | See, RTPRIO=50 is the rt-kernel | default. You should have somethng similar (but not identical) as here: | | # /etc/init.d/rtirq start | rtirq: start [rtc] irq=8 pid=374 prio=90: OK. | rtirq: start [snd] irq=21 pid=1959 prio=85: OK. | rtirq: start [snd] irq=23 pid=2132 prio=84: OK. | rtirq: start [snd] irq=17 pid=2091 prio=83: OK. | rtirq: start [uhci_hcd] irq=16 pid=1794 prio=80: OK. | rtirq: start [uhci_hcd] irq=18 pid=1735 prio=79: OK. | rtirq: start [uhci_hcd] irq=19 pid=1767 prio=78: OK. | rtirq: start [ehci_hcd] irq=20 pid=1801 prio=80: OK. | rtirq: start [i8042] irq=1 pid=412 prio=75: OK. | rtirq: start [i8042] irq=12 pid=411 prio=74: OK. | # /etc/init.d/rtirq status | | PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND | 374 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S< IRQ-8 rtc | 1959 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S< IRQ-21 sk98lin, ICE1712 | 2132 FF 84 - 124 0.0 S< IRQ-23 CS46XX | 2091 FF 83 - 123 0.3 S< IRQ-17 Intel ICH5 | 1794 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S< IRQ-16 uhci_hcd:usb3 | 1801 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S< IRQ-20 ehci_hcd:usb4 | 1735 FF 79 - 119 0.2 S< IRQ-18 uhci_hcd:usb1, nvidia | 1767 FF 78 - 118 0.1 S< IRQ-19 uhci_hcd:usb2 | 412 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S< IRQ-1 i8042 | 411 FF 74 - 114 0.0 S< IRQ-12 i8042 | 5 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< softirq-high/0 | 6 FF 50 - 90 0.4 S< softirq-timer/0 | ... | | Maybe you'll have an older rtirq. Yes: ls -la /etc/init.d/rtirq -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5648 2005-12-08 01:45 /etc/init.d/rtirq apt-cache show rtirq Package: rtirq Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Size: 72 Maintainer: Free Ekanayaka <[email protected]> Architecture: all Version: 20050914-1 Depends: schedutils Conffiles: /etc/default/rtirq 62a7f4ddaa9b6c5f2f7bcfbbc37d1dd2 /etc/init.d/rtirq 55bae5f55c7bbc14326b1cd5cc3ff724 Description: Realtime IRQ This package contains scripts to prioritize IRQ thread handlers on a realtime-preemptible kernel | You can do the upgrade the dirty way, | by grabbing | http://www.rncbc.org/jack/rtirq-20070101.tar.gz. | Locate where your existing rtirq is installed (mine is in | "/etc/init.d/rtirq" as of LSB) bur yours may vary (as in debian which I | don't grok very well:) rm /usr/bin/rtirq Ok Download from: http://www.rncbc.org/jack/rtirq-20070101.tar.gz Now: cd /etc/init.d rm rtirq # ok, I dont need it, and I have backups mv rtirq.sh rtirq ln -s /etc/init.d/rtirq /usr/sbin/ (just to lauch it in an easy way) | . Make a backup. Locate where your rtirq | configuration is also. Make a backup. Replace the existing "rtirq" | script with the supplied "rtirq.sh". Do the same with the configuration | by "rtirq.conf" (LSB suggest that's "/etc/sysconfig/rtirq", but YMMV) I dont see this on my system... locate rtirq | grep conf /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/var/lib/dpkg/info/rtirq.conffiles /mnt/hdb2/var/lib/dpkg/info/rtirq.conffiles /mnt/hdb5/var/lib/dpkg/info/rtirq.conffiles /mnt/hdb8/var/lib/dpkg/info/rtirq.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/rtirq.conffiles * So, I just added it there, see: ls -la /etc/sysconfig/rtirq.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 918 2007-01-01 21:30 /etc/sysconfig/rtirq.conf * Rename it: mv /etc/sysconfig/rtirq.conf /etc/sysconfig/rtirq | . | Check and edit the new "rtirq" shell script and eventually change the | variable which points to the new configuration file, something like | RTIRQ_CONFIG=/etc/sysconfig/rtirq It's ok | If you were under an RPM based distro (which I think you aren't) you | could just go on your life with | http://www.rncbc.org/jack/rtirq-20070101-18.noarch.rpm | | Good luck. | Cheers. Thanks, now: root@musix1:/etc/init.d# rtirq stop root@musix1:/etc/init.d# rtirq start rtirq: start [rtc] irq=8 pid=226 prio=90: OK. rtirq: start [snd] irq=12 pid=325 prio=85: OK. rtirq: start [snd] irq=10 pid=587 prio=84: OK. rtirq: start [uhci_hcd] irq=5 pid=594 prio=80: OK. rtirq: start [ehci_hcd] irq=11 pid=1040 prio=80: OK. rtirq: start [i8042] irq=1 pid=326 prio=75: OK. root@musix1:/etc/init.d# rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 226 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S< IRQ-8 rtc 325 FF 85 - 125 0.1 S< IRQ-12 uhci_hcd:usb3, VIA82XX-MODEM 587 FF 84 - 124 0.8 S< IRQ-10 uhci_hcd:usb1, EMU10K1 594 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S< IRQ-5 uhci_hcd:usb2 1040 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S< IRQ-11 ehci_hcd:usb4 326 FF 75 - 115 0.0 S< IRQ-1 i8042 4 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-high/0 5 FF 50 - 90 0.7 S softirq-timer/0 6 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-net-tx/ 7 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-net-rx/ 8 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-block/0 9 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-tasklet 10 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-sched/0 11 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-hrtimer 12 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S softirq-rcu/0 47 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-9 acpi 249 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-14 ide0 252 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-15 ide1 929 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-6 1071 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S< IRQ-7 parport0 Cheers, -- `&' # Marcos Guglielmetti, co-director de # Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre para artistas _#_ http://www.musix.org.ar (#) / O \ + archivos: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix ( === ) Ecología: http://autosus.wordpress.com `---' Personal: http://marcospcmusica.wordpress.com "La libertad está en ser dueños de la propia vida." 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