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From: Alex Fore <alex.fore@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xmms on iBook, not playing smoothly
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:27:40
Message-Id: 20030410172736.66ba5ecc.alex.fore@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xmms on iBook, not playing smoothly by Graham Forest
1 you could make your emerges nice too, which is what I usually do, so compiling doesn't affect desktop responsiveness. What I mean is preface your emerge command with "nice" i.e "nice emerge foo"
2
3 On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:53:53 -0700
4 Graham Forest <vladimir@g.o> wrote:
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6 > try renice -10 `pidof xmms` as root. Just an idea.
7 >
8 > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:15:30 +0200 (CEST)
9 > Ruben Vandeginste <Ruben.Vandeginste@××××××××××××××.be> wrote:
10 >
11 > >
12 > > Hi,
13 > >
14 > > When i play ogg vorbis files on my iBook (2.2), the songs regularly 'hold'
15 > > for a tiny while. The problem is probably that i'm running compiles in
16 > > the background which also access the harddisk (?) However, this is really
17 > > annoying, what can i do about this ?
18 > >
19 > > I never had that kind of problem with my old Pentium 120... but it looks
20 > > like on newer machines i have that problem, but i always solved it by
21 > > taking bigger buffers in xmms, but that doesn't seems to work in this
22 > > case. (i took a bigger buffer for the OSS driver)
23 > >
24 > > Any ideas ?
25 > >
26 > > Ruben
27 > >
28 > >
29 > >
30 > > --
31 > > gentoo-ppc-user@g.o mailing list
32 > >
33 >
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xmms on iBook, not playing smoothly Ruben Vandeginste <Ruben.Vandeginste@××××××××××××××.be>