Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: dynamic-hz | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:54:39 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 09:29 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Just being devils advocate here... > > > > I had variable Hz in my tree for a while and found there was one solitary > > purpose to setting Hz to 100; to silence cheap capacitors. > > > > The rest of my users that were setting Hz to 100 for so-called performance > > gains were doing so under the false impression that cpu usage was lower simply > > because of the woefully inaccurate cpu usage calcuation at 100Hz. > > I have found that mplayer drops audio less often when the harddisk is under > load. >
Ugh, because mplayer stupidly does disk i/o and AV playback and GUI in the same thread. Insert Xine plug.
Lee
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