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#19
Originally Posted by Deafboy View Post
The noices and lags while playing music is not related to default music player, but to the design of whole system. If you perform some heavy operations, some parts of the system are colapsing... Try to ungzip 100MB file and browse the web while the file is being uncompressed. Impossible. Try to start download of large file via wifi, and play some random game / music. It will be pain in the ***.

Temporary workaround would be renice-ing the process of mediaplayer. Start mediaplayer, open terminal, and as root user type
Code:
ps -ef | grep mediaplayer
Two processes should be found (don't ask me why there are 2 of them)
First number on line is process ID. Chouse one of mediaplayer processes, and do
Code:
renice -10 ID_of_process
If it's not helpfull, try any lower number (to -19) or renice the second process too
Lower the number, higher the priority of the process.
I can believe that there is some border-line(or not so border) cases. E.g. maybe case where default PITA scheduled apt-get update cycle kicks in 24h intervals and same time you are browsing (playing flash game) and listening music.

Does Android handle these usage cases any better? 1:1 comparison. Is it really multitasking in these cases or are processes suspended? I do not want to downplay importance of these cases for you or any other user but thing with multitasking is, that everything comes down to: What mostly users do and letīs concentrate to those cases. I do not defend bad usage experience in these cases on N900 and I believe that some processes should always get more slices from cpu, but I do understand that my device doesnīt have infinite power to multi-task. It looks like that closed or sanboxed environments seem to be better in some cases. Take widgets for example. Look what Nokia devels have said in bugzilla, basically if you are bad programmer and core OS doesnīt try to protect itself from misbehaving apps then surely whole device is going to be unusable and we do not care much about it because you as devel suck
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Last edited by slender; 2011-03-17 at 20:01.
 

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