Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:13:25 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4) |
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> OK, so I finally took the plunge, and put 2.5 on my main desktop as well as > just the lab machines ;-) > > Generally seems to work very well, and VM performance is much more stable > than 2.4 ... but xmms seems to skip if I just waggle the scrollbar in some > windows. This happens most in my email client (which is Mulberry), but > other things show it to a more limited extent. > > The audio pauses happen on a simple window scroll down, without intensive > CPU background activity ... they're very short in duration, which makes it > *feel* more like the audio buffer is too small than a scheduler problem, > but I'm just guessing really.
Are you running debian? It likes to nice -10 the X server. Renicing it back to 0 fixes my xmms skips with 2.5.
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