[MPlayer-users] How to pause mencoder

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 12:43:06 +1000
Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at optushome.com.au> wrote:

> I think the problem is that Linux doesn't seem to have a true idle priority 
> scheduler (although I've seen interesting conversations about the possibility 
> of this in newer kernel versions.) 

It's not a problem with process scheduling, that's done rather well
(at least in 2.4, dont know about 2.6), but the problem is the
PC architecture which has a poor I/O system that blocks everything
and Linux which has problem handling big I/O loads.


			Attila Kinali

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