> OK, so I finally took the plunge, and put 2.5 on my main desktop as well as
> just the lab machines ;-)
>
> Generally seems to work very well, and VM performance is much more stable
> than 2.4 ... but xmms seems to skip if I just waggle the scrollbar in some
> windows. This happens most in my email client (which is Mulberry), but
> other things show it to a more limited extent.
>
> The audio pauses happen on a simple window scroll down, without intensive
> CPU background activity ... they're very short in duration, which makes it
> *feel* more like the audio buffer is too small than a scheduler problem,
> but I'm just guessing really.
Are you running debian? It likes to nice -10 the X server. Renicing it
back to 0 fixes my xmms skips with 2.5.
Anton
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