David Baron wrote:
I find that I must renice most any media player to at
least -5 to get well-
behaved play. I believe the problem is competition with X for resources (I am
running a Debian Sid box with KDE4). Then, my and renicer daemon will set them
back to 0 after I have been listening for a while.
KDE 3.5.10 here running on both Lenny and Sidux. Have never had any
problem with media players competing with X for resources, have never
had to renice them. Everything just plays fine.
Maybe the problem is KDE4?
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David
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