From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Wiktor <victorjan@poczta.onet.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:02:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112130142.5141.23.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4249B2B8.1090807@poczta.onet.pl>
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:55 +0200, Wiktor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> recently i had to run some program (xmms) with lowered nice value as
> normal user. to do that i had to su to the root account and then execute
> nice --5 xmms.
Let me guess, the sound skips unless you run at a low nice value.
That's bad design on the part of XMMS.
nice is the wrong way to handle RT constraints. You need a proper
design (ie multithreaded).
See JACK for an example of how to do it right.
http://jackit.sf.net
Or, since you don't need low latency, use a bigger buffer.
Proper handling of RT constraints has been discussed to death on LKML
and other lists (executive summary: almost no one does it right.
mplayer is one of the most egregious offenders).
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-29 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-29 19:55 [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files Wiktor
2005-03-29 21:02 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-03-30 19:55 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-31 5:51 ` Matt Mackall
[not found] <fa.ed33rit.1e148rh@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-29 20:45 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-03-30 16:07 ` Wiktor
2005-03-30 16:55 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-03-30 17:27 ` Wiktor
2005-03-30 19:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-03-30 20:16 ` Wiktor
2005-03-30 20:43 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-04-01 15:26 ` Wiktor
2005-04-01 16:07 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-03-31 5:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-31 15:56 ` Horst von Brand
2005-03-31 16:05 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-04-01 15:40 ` Wiktor
2005-04-01 16:12 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-04-01 17:27 ` Horst von Brand
2005-03-30 19:40 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-03-30 21:03 ` Lee Revell
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