[MPlayer-users] mplayer + heavy io: why ionice doesn't help?
Denis Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 19 20:21:47 CEST 2006
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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