Sound stutters and mouse slows way down

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> I am using a Gigabyte server/workstation board for my desktop.  It is 
> a dual socket A board.  I have 2x 2400MP athlons in it along with 768 
> megs of RAM.  My load averages tend to be around  1.00 -> 3.00 with 
> CPU utilization 30-40% idle.
> 
> My problem is that cvs, bzip2/bunzip2, and tar bring my system to it's 
> knees.  Sound stutters badly even though I have set XMMS to use 5 
> megs of buffering.  The mouse slows way down and gets jerky as well.  
> 
> I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p6.

You might be able to fix sound by enlarging the sound subsystem's DMA
buffer. Add 'hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384"' to /boot/device.hints to
enlarge the buffer from it's default 4096 bytes.

You might be able to make X more responsive by renicing it with a
negative 'nice' value. See renice(8).

Trying another scheduler in the kernel might also make a difference.

Roland
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