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acmeincailo, i have 8gb of memory if you need someone to do some testing20:53
ailoacmeinc: According to Ralph on the mailing list, there's some problem with his amd64 system, not getting access to all of his memory20:57
ailoHe showed the output of the command uname -a, which indicated that he is running a amd64 system21:00
acmeinci can confirm my home system recognized all 8gb when it was plugged in.  I recently downgraded since my mobo isn't linux friendly, so I can double confirm that in a few days.22:08
acmeincbut, i can do any testing you'd need.22:08
ailoacmeinc: I assume there is no problem then. It would be strange, since it's not really a -lowlatency problem anyway22:09
ailoHe probably has shared memory with his graphic card or something22:09
acmeincagreed 2x22:09
len-dtailo, odd that it seems only to be 64bit and 32 bit kernel is ok. It may be more interesting to fill up 4G on the same machine with a 32bit PAE and see if the video craps out..22:13
ailolen-dt: At first I assumed it was the -pae the was the problem, but it doesn't seem like anyone has had any. If there was a problem with the -lowlatency version, I would suspect it was actually not a real -pae, like when -lowlatency was actually not a -lowlatency because of the wrong config22:14
len-dtailo, ya, but he says the PAE is fine.22:15
ailoHe does?22:15
len-dt"> I noticed that for another 64bit Linux on my machine too, while a 32bit22:16
len-dt> Linux with a PAE is ok. I searched the Internet and found out that22:16
len-dt> several people on different Linux have the same problem.22:16
len-dt>22:16
len-dtquote from the email...22:16
len-dtSo if the 64bit kernel is correctly setting aside memory for the video, does that mean the PAE is willing to write over it?22:17
len-dtailo, ^^22:18
ailoAt least it doesn't seem to be -lowlatency related :P22:19
len-dtnope.22:19
ailoAccording to some mail responses on the LAU list, there is such a thing as soft irq's which makes it possible to tune rtprio for individual devices on the same IRQW22:20
ailoIRQ*22:21
ailoAnd for some reason -lowlatency is not doing its' job22:21
ailolen-dt: Could you check something? I don't have ubuntu installed right now: cat /boot/config-<yourlowlatencykernel> | grep IRQ_FORCED_THREADING22:23
ailoNot sure exactly what leads to the irq threading, so if you like, grep all instances of IRQ22:23
ailoWhich reminds me, I should see how the rtirq script works on this system. I'll be back later..22:24
ailoI don't have any rtprio whatsoever :P. whopidoo22:30
ailoFor me it makes no difference at all when it comes to performance though22:30
ailolen-dt: Actually, the problem is only with the soft irq. Supposedly, only the audio devices are supposed to get raised prio thanks to the rtirq script. On the other hand, they get high prio even without the script, so there's something else at play as well23:00
ailoThat's all for me today. Until next time..23:03

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