Background: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #1 Thu Oct 20 01:30:08 EDT 2005 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ $ rpm -q rhythmbox rhythmbox-0.8.8-2 Description of problem: If I'm doing a large about of disk I/O (e.g. copying files from CD-ROM to the HDD) while playing mp3s under rhythmbox, rhythmbox will begin skipping. Other programs, such as mplayer, don't have this problem. How reproducible: Most of the time.
I can see this problem, too. Additionally rhythmbox will hang after it skipped through the whole song - the application does not react on any events (mouse clicks for example) any more. I can reproduce this behavior if I force Linux to swap (e.g. using VMware with the guest OS using much RAM). fs
Same problem here. This is new as of the last couple of kernel versions- never saw it before. I'll bet it's something in the underlying gstreamer code...and could it be a matter of scheduler preferences? I've not looked at the code, but my instincts tell me it might be the culprit...unless we're using the same schedulers by default as we always have. I also have 3-second lockups while doing UnrealTournament, Quake, etc- that seems to coincide with disk I/O, but I have no proof. I'm open to provide a test system (mine); I can't help much in terms of programming, though, sorry. :(
I have not had this problem for a while. Either: 1) I have not been using my system in such a way as to trigger the bug or 2) Something has been fixed in a patch.
Still seeing this problem although not as often as it used to be.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Nope, just close it. Redhat's "business decision" to let OpenLdap rot on the vine because they were working on a huge beast to replace it, clinched it for me. I've been running Ubuntu Dapper for over a year now, and am converting all the business machines that way, too. 'Cause that's my business decision; sorry.