stephan beal wrote:
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:42, Nick Zentena wrote:
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:29, Basil Chupin wrote:
But I also noticed that these occur when smart is trying to update the channels - unsuccessfully at this time 'cause the SUSE server(s) is/are down.
(For what it's worth: I was watching a DVD and for the first time ever the picture would "freeze" momentarily. Again, this was occurring while smart was trying to update the channels.) Check the DMA settings.
You can work around this by starting your smart tools with a higher 'nice' setting. e.g.:
nice -+19 smart ...
That will run it at a lower priority and your videos are less likely to skip. i use this all the time when copying using scp, because scp takes up so much CPU and causes videos to pause/skip.
Ouch, Stephen, sorry about not replying to you earlier (I had overlooked your message unitl now). Many thanks for this suggestion. I can assume that this will also "increase" any access another computer has to the DSL so that it has more of the broadband allocated to it for, say, browsing while smart is in action? Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1