Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I haven't snipped - the output might be useful later in the thread. > > First, the "slow system" message always means something, but it's a bit > generic. It means that mplayer can't process the audio fast enough and like > the message says is often buggy driver or wrong configs. Try the suggestions > listed. > > An OOo compile in the background will indeed kill interactive processes. I > find that even on this DualCore2 2.6 notebook with 4G of RAM, building OOo > sends the load through the roof, especially when it starts printing progress > lines with lots of dots. It's IO blocking on something and the entire machine > just sits there doing nothing whatsoever except sit in a tight loop waiting > for soemthing to happen in the build. > > Try again once emerge OOo has completed. emerge KDE should not affect things > anywhere near the same amount. > > > >
I'm a snipping. LOL I haven't ignored this reply, I been testing some things. It appears that some file types are worse than others. .mp4 for example seems to be worse than a .flv. I'm still trying to make some sense out of this so I can report back something that makes sense. Trust me, that can be a challenge for me sometimes. ;-) Back when something falls into place. Oh, waiting until OOo was done compiling did help a LOT. It's still a little bit off tho. Dale :-) :-)
