From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJuuO-00064R-UB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:28:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8QFJOQv008273; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:19:24 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8QFJNE2002380 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:19:23 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E13162A916A for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:26:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABEF2A9110 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:26:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 7978717 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:26:15 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a 32-bit kernel on my 64-bit kernel Gentoo machine? Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:26:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <5bdc1c8b05092519454117d3df@mail.gmail.com> <43380515.6040408@erols.com> <5bdc1c8b0509260759ea041b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0509260759ea041b4@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509261726.14988.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 4eb3c8b7-cc51-45cc-8651-f32ec4b4c388 X-Archives-Hash: 9b22b804090599247577ea1bd41d11b3 On Monday 26 September 2005 16:59, Mark Knecht wrote: > "Any disk activity seems to be the main cause of xruns on this machine." > > If I get xruns (a failure mode of Jack-Audio-Connection-Kit running > on this hardware) then the machine is useless doing the sort of Linux > audio work I want to do so this is the problem I'm trying to solve. > That's my only goal. have you checked that 'unmaskirq' is set for your harddisk? hdparm /dev/hda should look like this: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0 not this: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list