I can't (not to mention won't) run XMMS as root, the easy answer is since my music is shared to this computer using NFS root doesn't have access to them. now i'm intersted in what you were saying about moving the audio processes up a notch. right now i have XMMS using the OSS Driver (used it in 7.3 as well) it seems to connect directly to the mixer device and in the past it has appeard to run the best ou of the the given list of output methods. If you could give me a way to move the audio process to be above X in priority I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Nick On Monday 14 October 2002 14:25, Bob Arendt wrote: > Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know > ...) > > Try using renice on xmms (as root): > renice -15 <pid_of_xmms> > You can also (as root): > nice -15 xmms > But xmms now runs as root. With renice, it still belongs to the user. > > If you're using esd, it should be renice'd as well. Even if X were running > with nice 0, it's still good practice to elevate the priority of the > realtime audio processes to avoid skips. > > Does anyone have a nice way to do this without popping in & out of root? > > Cheers, > -Bob Arendt > > Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know > ...) > > Nick Gommans wrote: > > I am also running the emu-script to give me the more conventional mixer > > channels as well as the bass/trebble controls > > > > I have a hunch that it's related to the X system as I never had this kind > > of problem in 7.3 (was running the skipjack beta but i didn't see the > > problem on 7.3 when i installed the release version on people's > > computers) I don't remember X eating soo much processor power on simple > > operations. When I didn't so anything on my computer It idle'd at 0.5% > > processor usage or less.. now it's around 3-5% at idle. > > > > Does everyone else have X with a -10 nice level? I don't remember X ever > > having that high a level on my computer and although I can't find a way > > to change it, Ithink it might be responsible. > > > > Nick -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
