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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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Subject: Re: xmms (audio) skipping in 2.5 (not 2.4)
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> Try an -mm 
> kernel with the scheduler tunables patch and try playing with the max
> timeslice. Most have found that <=25 will usually stop these skips. The
> default max timeslice of 300ms is just too long for the desktop and
> interactivity estimator.

IMHO 300ms is way too much. Timeslice should be in the 10-50ms range
to get good interactive performance. Why is it so long ?

Bye.

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