Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:28:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Strange load issues with 2.5.69/70 in both -mm and -bk trees. |
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On 2 Jun 2003, Tom Sightler wrote:
> I think this may be because wine uses a client/server model. There is > the wine client which runs the actual applications, but they seem to > share the core wineserver process which seems to be responsible for > actually mixing and generating the sound output. Renicing the 'wine' > (frontend) process give the 'wineserver' (backend) process more CPU time > to actually get the sound out.
yes, this is an accurate description of the wineserver model.
to prove this point, could you try and renice wineserver to -10 (as root) - does that fix the latency issues still?
(if this doesnt then it could be the foreground process starving yet another process - we have to find out which one.)
Ingo
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