On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:27 +0200, szonyi calin wrote:
> I have the following problem with audio:
> Xmms is running with threads for audio and spectrum
> analyzer(OpenGL).
> The audio eats 5% cpu, the spectrum analyzer about 80 %. The
> problem is that sometimes the spectrum analyzer is eating all of
> the cpu while the audio is skipping. Xmms is version 1.2.10
> kernel is vanilla, latest "stable" version 2.6.12, suid root.
> 
> Does your benchmark simultes this kind of behaviour ? 

That's just a broken app, the kernel can't do anything about it.  XMMS
should not be running the spectrum analyzer thread at such a high
priority as to interfere with the audio thread.

Lee

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