Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:59:30 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: ps hang in 241-pre10 |
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On 27 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <3A7359BB.7BBEE42A@linux.com>, David Ford <david@linux.com> > wrote: > > > >We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? > > Does it use KNI if it can, for example? We used to have a problem with > KNI+Athlons, for example.
Not KNI, I don't think, but 1.2.4 did add support for 3dnow!, with auto-detection of CPU type. Disabled by default, but available. Are there any 3dnow! issues??
> It might also be that it's threading-related, and that XMMS is one of > the few things that uses threads. Things like that. I'm not an XMMS > user, can somebody who knows XMMS comment on things that it does that > are unusual?
Always uses threads, can use 3dnow!, DGA and realtime priority. Can also do direct hardware access to some graphics cards (inc SB16), but I haven't looked at that one closely.
James.
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