Messages in this thread | | | From | "Felipe Alfaro Solana" <> | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:30:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: [patch] sched-2.5.64-D3, more interactivity changes |
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----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Date: 18 Mar 2003 23:13:01 -0800 To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> Subject: Re: [patch] sched-2.5.64-D3, more interactivity changes > I'm still getting starvation problems. If I run xmms with the "Goom" > visualizer (with the window large enough that it is CPU-bound), then > type a command into a shell window (say, ps), it will not run the > command until I close or shrink the goom window. xmms itself plays > fine, though sometimes it fails to go to the next track, apparently for > the same reason (ie, it starts the next track when I disable the > visualizer). Well, I'm also experiencing starvation problems with CPU-bound loads. For example, I'm converting all my music collection from MP3 to OGG, and when using "oggenc" to convert from WAV to OGG, the system becomes pretty unresponsive: running commands on a terminal (for example a "ps axf") takes forever, unless you stop (Ctrl+S) the "oggenc" process. To avoid this, I had to lower "oggenc" priority using renice. Using renice <PID> +20 helped with starvation :-) Thanks! Felipe -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr
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