Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

[Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz>]

Am 10.05.2012 05:59, schrieb Adam Carter:
>> There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
>> be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
>> use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
>> yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related
>> to having 5 G tmpfs for portage, but when it happened the last time only
>> 100 M were being used.
> 
> Yeah so it wont be swap related. This sounds more like the desktop
> responsiveness issue discussed a while back. It might be worth
> googling that (main issue was fixed in later kernels)
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1
> 
> There's other things that may help, ie
> CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
> CONFIG_HZ=1000
> 

Does the CONFIG_HZ setting today really have that much of an impact? I
mean with tickles kernels and high res timers it should matter that
much, or am I wrong?
Playing video is not really a low-latency-multimedia-app, on the other
hand: you never really know :)