Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: WINE + Galciv + Con Kolivar's 09 patch to 2.6.0-test1-mm2 | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:05:59 +1000 |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:49, gaxt wrote: > Kudos to CK
Thanks.
> In 2.4.21 galciv + wine was fine. > > In 2.4.21 + CK patches, galvic + wine would pause every 15 seconds or so > (maybe it was when little animations played). > > In 2.6.0-test1-mm2 (vanilla, or + 08) Galciv would stutter horribly and > freeze my machine in wine. It might run smoothly until I loaded a > nautilus window or something then stutters and loss of control of the > system. > > With 09, it is smooth as silk until I do something and then the video > playbacks can be choppy but the game (turn based strategy) seems to run > without the long pauses of 2.4.21 CK or 2.6.0 vanilla. I can switch > between apps and go back without any problem. > > 09 seems to be a big improvement for whatever caused the stutter & die > problems in wine+galciv.
Therein lies the problem with large MAX_SLEEP_AVG values. It may prevent interactive tasks from becoming non interactive (which is the point), but if an interactive task turns into a true cpu hog it can literally stall the machine for seconds. Which is why the workaround in O*int that allow small MSAs help.
Con
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