Re: encrypted filesystem and multitasking

From: Frank v Waveren (fvw@var.cx)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 18:45:15 EST

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    On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:05:39AM +0100, Frank v Waveren wrote:
    > I've been using an encrypted /home for the past week or so now, and
    > generally speaking it works perfect. However, when doing disk intensive
    > things that can't be cached (like a make on a large source tree), programs
    > that constantly need a bit of cpu time (like xmms) occassionaly don't get
    > their timeslice in time, (and thus, the mp3's skip). Is this because
    > the filesystem routines are meant for an unencrypted(=fast) filesystem,
    > and thus too large chunks of work are being done at a time, and is there
    > a way to fix this?

    Maybe I should mention: Without an encrypted filesystem mounted, there's
    no way I can get xmms to skip, no matter how many processes I start.
    The decoding part isn't the problem, I'm using a 10 sec buffer, the
    problem afai can see it is in the thread that sends the data to /dev/dsp.

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    Frank v Waveren fvw@var.cx ICQ# 10074100

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