Re: 2.5.70-mm6

Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org)
10 Jun 2003 11:56:33 +0200


On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 22:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> --On Monday, June 09, 2003 22:08:42 +0200 Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:51, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> >> If you don't nice the hell out of X, does it work OK?
> >> > No.
> >> >
> >> > The way I reproduce the sound skips:
> >> > run xmms, run evolution, compose a mail with gpg.
> >> > on mm6 the gpg part stops the sound for a few seconds. (with X -10 and 0)
> >> > on mm5 xmms plays without stops. (with X -10)
> >>
> >> Does this (from Ingo?) do anything useful to it?
> >
> > I can confirm that 2.5.70-mm6 with Ingo's patch and HZ set back to 1000
> > is nearly perfect (it still takes some seconds for the scheduler to
> > adjust dynamic priorities).
>
> OK ... sorry to be pedantic, but I want to nail this down.
> It's still broken with HZ=1000, but without Ingo's patch, right?

Well, Ingo's patch makes XMMS more resistant to audio skip when HZ=1000.
Anyways, with HZ=1000 interactivity is much better than with HZ=100
(with or without Ingo's patch).

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