On Sat, 12 May 2001, Matt wrote:
> On 12 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > * Applied Matt's patch to unwarnify main.c
> > * soundserver_sdl.c now uses SDL's select()-like functions to wait for
> > signals
>
> It actually looks like using sci_sched_yield works just as well.
>
> CPU usage of the sound thread never goes above 10% (during song loading, I
> guess?), and usually plays/idles around <2%. This is about as good as the
> SDL_CondWait* stuff was getting, and should work on Linux/BSD/etc as well.
>
> Attached is a diff that reverts to sci_sched_yield(), since it will work
> better across platforms.
>
> Now we just need to fix the main thread trying to use 100% CPU all the
> time :)
With this patch, the CPU (PPro200) spends 100% of its time on FreeSCI,
mostly not doing anything actively. Character movement pauses every ~5
second, music output is sluggish. From the Linux user performance
perspective this sucks bigtime.
--
/Rickard Lind
