From: Lukas Kolbe <lucky@knup.de>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm2 music skips
Date: 20 Jul 2003 23:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058738207.17387.14.camel@tigris.chaoswg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F1B05D7.8060303@wmich.edu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-20 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-20 20:34 2.6.0-test1-mm2 music skips Lukas Kolbe
2003-07-20 21:12 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-07-20 21:56 ` Lukas Kolbe [this message]
2003-07-20 23:35 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-07-20 23:47 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-07-21 1:21 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-07-21 14:21 ` Takashi Iwai
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