From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SRWsy-0002Dc-NW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 22:58:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C43B6E08B1; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F098FE08B1 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885801B4013 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:56:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.148 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.148 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.138, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PbrT2-TL-ehP for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA6761B4010 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRWr0-0006Os-NB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 00:56:30 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-188-22.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.188.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 May 2012 00:56:30 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-188-22.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 May 2012 00:56:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 15:56:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <7661425.dpRk3J8nd2@energy> <4FA7FBD5.9030103@hadt.biz> <3391082.RGBBzf0N4t@energy> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-188-22.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: <3391082.RGBBzf0N4t@energy> X-Archives-Salt: 39b47299-a3f2-46d9-a0fe-bb239ba409fc X-Archives-Hash: 90f27a82aaae3ec8e30aa76d6f5ff950 On 05/07/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: >> Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? >> >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt > > nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now? > > The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays keyboard > input? That is just idiotic. Have you tested ck-sources for comparison?