Thanks for the advice - > There's something about X should be run niced on 2.4.X and not on 2.5.X and > later (the new kernel scheduler passes credits along sockets when processes > are stalled or something like that). > > Maybe changing your nice value with a "dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common" would > help...
It only behaved nicely once I gave X a priority lower than xmms - set X to a nice value of "1" and playback was fine, except that X performance sucks. So, I now launch xmms with a nice value of "-11" and all is well. ...tom
