On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:26:40 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, > Now to try and solve this I tried to set xmms to use realtime priority > and made it setuid root. According to top it's running at priority 20 > nice -76 so it seems to be running realtime, but portupgrade can still > interrupt the audio occasionally. I've tried nicing portupgrade > before, [...] > amount of time. If their scheduled apropriately there should be no > conflicts, I've never really had this issues with linux, AFAIK. Is > there any better way to fix this? Some person recently asked this in freenode's #FreeBSD irc channel, and the solution that worked for him was to increase xmms's buffer. Go the preferences menu, Audio I/O plugins, increase the buffer size and see if it makes a difference. You don't mention what kind of disks you use, but I guess they're IDE disks. Make sure DMA is working. I usually read my mp3 files from a NFS server and they never skip, even when the machine is doing heavy i/o (e.g. unpacking firefox) and/or under load (avg load of 10), but I've noticed audio skips when the mp3 file was on a local disk that was being currently in use. I don't think increasing xmms's priority will fix the problem. Why you don't see that problem in Linux could be due to the anticipatory i/o scheduler in 2.6. HTH, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Extreme ways are back again http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org | Extreme places I didn't know PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 | I broke everything new again Note: All HTML mail goes to /dev/null | Everything that I'd owned
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