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

[The Wanderer <inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Corey Hickey wrote:

> The Wanderer wrote:
>
> > > I noticed that mplayer's video playback starts to skip if I do
> > > some serious copying or grepping on the disk with movie being
> > > played from.
> > >
> > > nice helps, but does not eliminate the problem. I guessed that
> > > this is a problem with mplayer failing to read next portion of
> > > input data in time, so I used Jens's ionice.c from
> > > Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
> >
> > (Where is this path located? It certainly isn't part of the MPlayer
> > source tree.)
>
> In the Linux kernel source, it seems.

Ah. Must be a different version; there is no ioprio.txt on my system,
even though I have about six different versions of the kernel source
code in various places.

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