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 
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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