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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:13:25 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030304141324.GA12185@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <103200000.1046755559@[10.10.2.4]>


> OK, so I finally took the plunge, and put 2.5 on my main desktop as well as
> just the lab machines ;-)
> 
> Generally seems to work very well, and VM performance is much more stable
> than 2.4 ... but xmms seems to skip if I just waggle the scrollbar in some
> windows. This happens most in my email client (which is Mulberry), but
> other things show it to a more limited extent.
> 
> The audio pauses happen on a simple window scroll down, without intensive
> CPU background activity ... they're very short in duration, which makes it
> *feel* more like the audio buffer is too small than a scheduler problem,
> but I'm just guessing really.

Are you running debian? It likes to nice -10 the X server. Renicing it
back to 0 fixes my xmms skips with 2.5.

Anton

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-04 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-04  5:25 xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4) Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04  5:36 ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-04  5:52   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04  7:28     ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-04  7:48       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04  8:15         ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-04 10:00           ` Andrew McGregor
2003-03-04 15:59             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-12 22:59     ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-12 23:42       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04  9:48   ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-03-04 14:13 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2003-03-04 14:18   ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-03-04 14:31   ` Sean Neakums
2003-03-04 16:17   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04 18:39 ` Aaron Lehmann

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