On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 07:09, Atul Chitnis wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > > > This would be extremely helpful, especially in light of the significant > > bug in the latest glibc RPM updates that tend to HOSE machines pretty > > well. > > Uh - any URL's or other references for this? I am about to deploy a couple > of RHL9 servers, and that statement of yours makes my hair standup! > I have seen significant performance loss running mplayer with the latest glibc. Even after recompiling it. Unless I add options to change the audio driver, etc it reports the system is too slow when really nothing else is running and it is an Athlon XP 1700+. On the flip side responsiveness seemed to go way up.
