[pulseaudio-discuss] running in high priority

[rong deng]

2012/8/22 Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>:
> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 04:55 +0200, Sladjan Ri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it beneficial to run in high priority at all? I tested and found
>> stuttering with the src-high-quality resampling, with nice level -11
>> and CPU went up to 70% on one core (gnome-system-monitor).
>> Without high-priority, it hadn't stuttered and CPU only went to about 40%.
>
> I think we had some problems with the pulseaudio nice level in Maemo
> too. I don't fully (or at all...) understand what causes the problems,
> but it indeed looks like having a low nice level can actually make
> performance worse.

Is it possible that it's the issue of the kernel that malfunctioning
on scheduling?

>
> If your system works better without the high-priority option, then feel
> free not to use it.
>
> --
> Tanu
>
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