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

[The Wanderer]

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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