On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:34, Lee Revell wrote: > 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.
I agree; optimising for this is just silly. Cheers, Con
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