From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 23:24:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 23:24:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5DE37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 23:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4C7D3196; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 08:24:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 08:24:07 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: david@banning.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing task performance question Message-ID: <20001204082407.A21867@cgmd76206.chello.nl> References: <200012040715.CAA10452@d.tracker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012040715.CAA10452@d.tracker>; from david@www3.pacific-pages.com on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:15:46AM -0500 Sender: edwin@cgmd76206.chello.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:15:46AM -0500, David Banning wrote: > Using an mp3 player on my 100mhz pentium (mp3blaster) > causes sputtering - my machine is probably not fast enough. > It only drops out maybe once per song - > > Isn't there a command that puts a greater percentage of the system > resources into a single task? > > That would be useful during times when my only purpose for the > machine is to play music in my house. I managed to be able to play music on such an old machine with starting mpg123 with the -2 option and lots of buffering. But on the other hand, I had to start X with it also. Man rtprio or man idprio should give you some help also. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message