On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:16:02PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I managed to make things much much better by adding "elevator=none" to > the kernel boot parameters. The default (elevator=as) was the worst, and > I can't say for sure whether elevator=deadline is better or not than > none. With "none", windowed playback is finally working acceptably good, > but full screen playback is still jittery (getting stuck once a second > approximately). Like I said - under 2.4 fullscreen was good enough to > comfertably watch a movie. > > I found the elevator switch when I was looking for different scheduler > boot switched. I remeber reading somewhere that you can turn off the > low-latency scheduler using a boot parameter, but I can't seem to locate > that any more.
I'm not sure what you mean here, but you might want to take a look at Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for the least of different kernel parameters. Which kernel version exactly are you using? is the system loaded? are either of the DVD player, X and window manager niced to non 0? Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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