On Sat, 9 May 2009, Ron Youvan wrote:
>>> Well, if you mean that the videos start, play, hang briefly from time to
>>> time, and then continue, yes I get that too. I'm pretty sure that's a
>>> CPU/memory issue. For example, when fetchmail is sucking up mail from my
>>> internet mail server, it has a tendency to briefly pause any running
>>> videos. If you can check a CPU/memory usage graph while watching videos,
>>> you'll probably see a spike when videos pause. I don't really worry
>>> about it. I suppose you could change nice values to give FF or Flash
>>> more governance over the CPU. My box is a crappy little Asus with a meg
>>> of memory and a Celeron CPU. I don't expect stellar performance.
>
> I have a friend that is a "video guru" that has told me the
> audio is frequently a bigger burden to the hardware than the
> video. How much memory does your system have and how fast is
> your swap memory if any. I never use swap memory because I
> have over 2 gig of ram.
I have 4 GiB and swap occasionally when I run VMware, since I also have ~40
FF windows containg maybe a hundred tabs, a few gnome-terminals, the
assorted evince, thunar, and other things as well as miscellaneous console
apps. xfce (which I use) is somewhat lighter than gnome but no doubt a bit
more memory-hungry than fvwm.
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