I have found that sound works much better on my system if: "artsd" runs at nice
-10. Am I correct in this belief or is it something else?
I have made a patch for the: "artswrapper" that sets the nice value to -10.
See attached.
I also found it helps to set X to a nice value of -8. Edit the:
"$KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/Xservers" file. Mine is attached.
With these two settings I get good reaction time when I move windows but moving
windows does not screw up music playing through aRts.
Would anybody else like to try this??
--
JRT
diff -Naur arts-1.2.3.old/soundserver/artswrapper.c arts-1.2.3/soundserver/artswrapper.c
--- arts-1.2.3.old/soundserver/artswrapper.c 2003-06-25 12:13:57.000000000 +0000
+++ arts-1.2.3/soundserver/artswrapper.c 2004-07-01 02:14:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+int nice(int inc);
/*
* adjust_priority
@@ -74,6 +77,7 @@
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
+nice(-10);
if(argc == 2)
{
if(strcmp(argv[1],"check") == 0)
# $Xorg: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
#
# Xservers file, workstation prototype
#
# This file should contain an entry to start the server on the
# local display; if you have more than one display (not screen),
# you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also
# have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP,
# you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should
# look like:
# XTerminalName:0 foreign
#
:0 local@tty1 /bin/nice -n -8 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -br -nolisten tcp -dpi 100
:1 local reserve /bin/nice -n -8 /usr/bin/X11/X :1 vt8 -deferglyphs 16 -br -nolisten tcp -dpi 100
### Don't change these two lines; they are hints for genkdmconf. ###
### Version 1.99 ###
___________________________________________________
.
Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
