Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v12

[Nick Piggin]

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.


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