[plug] XMMS

[Leon Brooks]

Beau Kuiper wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Gavan Blunt wrote:
>> On my RH6.2 machine, I'm having lots of probs with xmms.

>> Does anyone
>> have any ideas on what may be wrong (other than the fact that I'm running
>> gnome 1.2 on a P166/64MB machine)?

> Hmmm, apart from running the new gnome (does your machine swap a lot, what is
> the load top gives you), you can try:

> 1) removing ~/.xmms/config. XMMS's default settings are quite good for
> buffering, and playing around with them may mess them up.

> 2) fiddlinging with the mp3 buffer sizes.

> 3) worse case, apply the low latency patches for linux, and recompile your
> kernel.

4) Run XMMS at nice -10.

5) apply the K6-II-450 solution, going cheap at the moment as Socket7
motherboards dry up. 64MB should be plenty unless you're running something very
hungry like StarOffice.

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