On my system if I do ps -e, speech-dispatcher has several process ids. should I renice all of them? Speech-dispatcher on my setup runs as a demon. There may have been some slite improvement with char typing and maybe a slight increase in speech, but still has lag with large blocks of text. It'll be interesting to see what this does on my new system or not-so-old system when they're setup. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:38 AM Subject: Re: found temporary fix for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 software speechproblem > Thanks, David. How can I say it? Very, ahem, nice? <grin> > > I shall probably need to muck around with the settings. Your minus five > and vie numbers do seem to have improved things, but there's still way > to much lag for me when typing chars. > > Question: Do you notice more lag on capital letters than on lower case? > I get significantly more lag on caps, perhaps more than twice as long. > > David Bruzos writes: > > Hi Janina: > > Use the "nice" and "renice" commands to change priorities. The "nice" command is used to set the priority before you start > > the program and the "renice" command is used to set priority of an already running program. So you can start > > "speech-dispatcher" and "speechd_up" with something like: > > > > # nice -n -5 speech-dispatcher > > # nice -n 5 speechd_up > > > > Or, you can change the priority of speech-dispatcher and speechd_up after they are running by doing: > > > > # renice -5 speech-dispatcher-process-id > > # renice 5 speechd_up-process-id > > > > When you use renice, you must specify the process ID of the program you want to modify. The highest priority possible is > > -20 and the lowest priority is 19. You can only increase the priority of a program as root. The default priority when > > you log-in is 0. > > As long as you set the priority of speechd_up lower than what your login is using, it seems to work well. You don't want > > to make the priority too low, because then the speechd_up program will not be able to get any CPU time. So, 5 for > > speechd_up seems to work well. I increase the priority of speech-dispatcher to -5 to make my speech slitely more > > responsive. > > > > HTH > > > > DB > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:31:05AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Where do you set these priorities? > > > > > > David Bruzos writes: > > > > Hi all: > > > > I had the same problem that some of you were discribing with the software speech and speakup. The speech was extremely > > > > choppy and hard to understand. Kirk said on another posting that the problem was a kernel configuration option > > > > called "Preempt The Big Kernel Lock". This option is found in kernels 2.6.10 and 2.6.11. I recompiled the kernel on my > > > > desktop without this option and speech improved, but I did not want to recompile on my laptop, so I started playing with > > > > other things. > > > > I fixed the problem by changing the priority of my "speechd_up" and of "speech-dispatcher". I am running "speechd_up" with > > > > priority 5 and speech-dispatcher with priority -5 and it works wonderfully. I think my speech is more responsive than it > > > > ever has been. > > > > Of course I have no idea why the changed priority helps with this problem, but it does. > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > > > David B. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > > > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > > > > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > > > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > > > > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
