[Ilugc] KERNEL / DISTRO / DESKTOP / APPLICATION interdependency?
- From: siva@xxxxxxxxxxx (Sivasankar Chander)
- Date: Wed Sep 1 18:28:57 2004
Also note that 2.6 is much different from 2.4 in terms of
responsiveness of system due to pre-emptive kernel and O(1) sheduler.
Yes, on the whole it is a huge improvement on the desktop, but there
is at least one new side-effect - on Xine, when you bring the UI controls
into focus, it gets the interactivity boost, while the window displaying
the video gets a lower priority. The net effect is that it starts dropping
frames the moment you try to adjust anything on the UI window, even
the volume control. Click on the display window again, and video immediately
becomes smooth with no frame drops.
I suppose I can live with this, but it wasn't that obvious on 2.4. It's
only visible on a relatively slow CPU, at any rate.
-Siva
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