Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:42:27 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4) |
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>> > the "desktop tuning" of making the max timeslice==min timeslice. Try an >> > -mm kernel with the scheduler tunables patch and try playing with the >> > max timeslice. Most have found that <=25 will usually stop these skips. >> > The default max timeslice of 300ms is just too long for the desktop and >> > interactivity estimator. >> >> Heh, cool. I have the same patch in my tree too, fixed it without rebooting >> even ;-) Still a *tiny* bit of skipping, but infinitely better than it was. > > Fixed without rebooting? You binary-patched > kernel or what? > Pavel
Nope, the sched tunables patch from Robert (which is in -mjb and -mm, so I was already running) exposes those parameters out to userspace for sysctl to change ... I just ran sysctl once, and it was done ;-)
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