On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:05:39AM +0100, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> I've been using an encrypted /home for the past week or so now, and
> generally speaking it works perfect. However, when doing disk intensive
> things that can't be cached (like a make on a large source tree), programs
> that constantly need a bit of cpu time (like xmms) occassionaly don't get
> their timeslice in time, (and thus, the mp3's skip). Is this because
> the filesystem routines are meant for an unencrypted(=fast) filesystem,
> and thus too large chunks of work are being done at a time, and is there
> a way to fix this?
Maybe I should mention: Without an encrypted filesystem mounted, there's
no way I can get xmms to skip, no matter how many processes I start.
The decoding part isn't the problem, I'm using a 10 sec buffer, the
problem afai can see it is in the thread that sends the data to /dev/dsp.
--Frank v Waveren fvw@var.cx ICQ# 10074100
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