Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reproducible terrible interactivity since 2.5.64bk2 | From | Andrew Ebling <> | Date | 26 Mar 2003 14:40:58 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:16, Michal Schmidt wrote: > Andrew Ebling wrote: > > I'm seeing similar on 2.5.66; xmms pauses when doing disk intensive > > tasks.
> This may be a different problem. My test is not very disk intensive. It > is more CPU intensive (bzip2 compression). The disk is only slightly > used when running my testing script.
I just experienced the problem very badly when tarring/bzipping hundreds of MB of source files - almost certainly CPU bound on that occasion ;-).
I could do this on 2.4.2x with no problem.
btw. xmms is playing via ALSA, but other apps are also being starved of CPU time - 30 second screen redraws :-/.
Andy
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