Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v12

[Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:

>>All of this basing scheduling performance on a bloated wannabe winamp 
>>makes as much sense as gauging car performance using a van.   If this 
>>was a purely scheduling problem, then why do other players like 
>>alsaplayer and such not suck as bad as xmms when under the exact same 
>>priority and all?  At least use something without a frontend so that 
>>you can limit the possibility that the programmers did something stupid 
>>like make decoding dependent on some update to the gui. 
>>xmms was coded first and foremost to look and work like winamp. 
>>Streamlined - even low latency performance was not a base goal.  
>>
>
>The reality is that people use xmms, and whilst it may not be the greatest
>program known to man, I don't believe it's *that* fundamentally screwed up
>that it should skip under normal desktop loads. *Especially* if it worked
>fine under 2.4 ;-)
>

I agree with Martin here. xmms may not be the smartest music player,
but its really sad if it skips on a P4 or Athlon.