Bug#376699: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: locks up when playing MIDI file to EMU10K1 soundcard and hard disk activity

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:51:54PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Severity: important
over exagerated.
 
 
> Please refer to:
> 
> [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#376382: ALSA MIDI playback 
> lock-up on kernel 2.6.17-686, not on kernel 2.6.16-2-686
> 
> The 2.6.17-1-686 has lockups when I attempt to play MIDI files to a 
> SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model 0220 PCI sound card using its onboard 
> MIDI synth and there is significant hard disk activity. I have not 
> had this problem since reverting to the 2.6.16-2-686 kernel.

are you sure that 2.6.16-2-686 works?
it was the first kernel with CONFIG_HZ_250 previous had 1000,
i would suspect the difference to be between 2.6.16-2-686 and
2.6.16-1-686
 
> I'm running a PII-266 with 256 MiB of RAM. 

regards

-- 
maks