Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm2 music skips | From | Lukas Kolbe <> | Date | 20 Jul 2003 23:56:48 +0200 |
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Am Son, 2003-07-20 um 23.12 schrieb Ed Sweetman: > Too many times music skipping is blamed on the kernel. This is not > always the case. Bad userspace programming can cause audio skipping. [...]
I didn't want to 'blame the kernel' for the audio-skipping, I just followed Andrew Morton's call for feedback. One of three things I find annoying in 2.5/2.6 is the audio-skipping, as far as I remember it 'felt better' with the late 2.2 to middle 2.4 kernels on older hardware.
But I also have to say that interactivity (with heavy multitasking, many apps, massive window-moving etc. pp) on my desktop-system has improved very very much compared to 2.4. Though I don't have figures to back that :).
> I'm not saying xmms is entirely at fault for the skips. But i've written > other ogg decoders for zinf that skipped as well doing those things. > Also, i moved to fluxbox as my window manager because other equally > functional window managers caused major X lag during redraws, fluxbox > does not. Also, make sure you have dma enabled on your hdds, swap on a > non-dma drive can easily crawl the system. And by the way, my x is
Yay, hd's have dma enabled (udma5). And Metacity is indeed a problem, it is damn lagging behind most other window managers, but it's gnome2's default.
> In short, it's not always the kernel that's the problem, but in the > implimentation the program uses for playing and decoding audio. They > may need to be redone since what they used to be able to get away with > in older kernels doesn't work anymore now that it's more strict and fair > and thus better at doing it's job.
ACK.
-- bye Lukas
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