[MPlayer-users] mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 18 August 2006 22:51, Corey Hickey wrote:
> >> I am using it this:
> >>
> >> ionice -c1 -n0 -p<mplayer pid>
> >>
> >> but so far I don't see any effect from using it. mplayer still skips.
> 
> This is the first I've ever heard of ionice, but ioprio.txt mentions 
> that CFQ is the only I/O scheduler that supports priorities. Are you 
> using CFQ?

I didn;t, but now I tried it with CFQ. Works better, but still some skips.
I'm looking into it.

> Besides that though, the usual solution to heavy I/O causing skipping is 
> to use -cache, just like The Wanderer advised.

Thanks! I will use -cache.
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