Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263112AbTIGEmY (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:42:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263154AbTIGEmY (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:42:24 -0400 Received: from static-ctb-210-9-247-166.webone.com.au ([210.9.247.166]:44037 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263112AbTIGEmT (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:42:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5AB71C.5060904@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:42:04 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: Ed Sweetman , Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v12 References: <3F58CE6D.2040000@cyberone.com.au> <195560000.1062788044@flay> <20030905202232.GD19041@matchmail.com> <207340000.1062793164@flay> <3F5935EB.4000005@cyberone.com.au> <6470000.1062819391@[10.10.2.4]> <3F5980CD.2040600@cyberone.com.au> <139550000.1062861227@[10.10.2.4]> <3F59C956.5050200@wmich.edu> <146640000.1062902095@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <146640000.1062902095@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 30 Martin J. Bligh wrote: >>All of this basing scheduling performance on a bloated wannabe winamp >>makes as much sense as gauging car performance using a van. If this >>was a purely scheduling problem, then why do other players like >>alsaplayer and such not suck as bad as xmms when under the exact same >>priority and all? At least use something without a frontend so that >>you can limit the possibility that the programmers did something stupid >>like make decoding dependent on some update to the gui. >>xmms was coded first and foremost to look and work like winamp. >>Streamlined - even low latency performance was not a base goal. >> > >The reality is that people use xmms, and whilst it may not be the greatest >program known to man, I don't believe it's *that* fundamentally screwed up >that it should skip under normal desktop loads. *Especially* if it worked >fine under 2.4 ;-) > I agree with Martin here. xmms may not be the smartest music player, but its really sad if it skips on a P4 or Athlon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/