On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:21:15PM +0100, Grant wrote: > > Try enlarging the soundcards DMA buffer; Add the following line to > > /boot/device.hints and reboot: > > > > hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384"
> I found the above line on google when i had a looke, i shoved it in but > with another number 65536 i dont know if that made a difference, but i > tried the exact line above with that number. > > The Jitter is still there, but instead of happening when firefox is > scrolling its only when firefox is just about to finish loading > something, which i suppose would cause a CPU spike or something ? also > during playback firefox runs very very slow :/ i dontk now if this is > related at all, but with the cpu and the ram it shouldnt run that bad, > the window manager is fluxbox so thats keeping things to a minimum. Some things you might try (might be totally off-base :): - run the player at a higher priority (with nice(1)). - have the scheduler make smaller slices; set the kern.sched.quantum sysctl to a smaller value. I thought there was another sysctrl for the ratio of user process time to system time, but I can't remember. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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