> For the archive: I had similar problems. In some > situations (opening new programs, switching windows), > xmms skipped, and in my case changing the nice value of > XFree to 0 (using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common) solved > the problem. See also the post-halloween document: > > <http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.t >xt> (section "Process scheduler improvements") > > best regards > Andreas Janssen
YES!!! That was the other answer I was fishing for, because I vaguely remember reading something similar on slashdot but couldn't remember quite what. Thanks a lot all. I can now start new programs and move large files without skippy interrupts in my IDE and xmms tunes. c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]