Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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Up early, breakfast - disappeared up-stairs with Rodrigo for
some mail processing. Poked at super-irritating pulseaudio glitch-fest
on my oldest, slowest machine - stracing the daemon we see that it's
waking up 5x per second (or so) and some rather unfortunately long
poll response times: eg.
1211970599.543457 poll({snip fd details}], 14, 186) = 1
1211970599.543928 gettimeofday({1211970599, 544334}, NULL) = 0
ie. we ask to sleep for 186us, and we get control back to call
gettimeofday 471us later. Of course, quite why we are waking up -so-
frequently, and reading ~20 bytes of samples, and going back to sleep
for such a short time is unclear to me; 260 poll / recvmsg's per
second - just to play a mp3; odd. Could it be that
this is the solution ? Unfortunately esd works (apparently)
perfectly on the same machine at a much more sedate 14 2k reads
per second instead.
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Hit upon a nice e-d-s crasher. Wrestled with memos, and got
some sent in the end, and the web tool setup for vacation Thur/Fri.
Lunch. Call with Jeff, interview.
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Hacked with Rodrigo on misc. bugs. Out for Dinner with
Rodrigo & his sister Eva's family - pleasant; bed late.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
