http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1871/
But for example it's nearly impossible to compile an updated XBMC SVN version and watch a Youtube video at the same time. The compiling takes up almost all available resources. The same happens when I'm uploading files to my local server using FTP while I'm listening music with Amarok. The music stops for a short time every once in a while because the uploading is taking up all resources. These are simple examples....

The finger can be pointed at the applications I use (Konsole, FileZilla, Firefox and Amarok in this example). But in my opinion priority management should not be the responsibility of an application. It's out of it's scope.

Just my two cents...

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]]> en-us Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:59:21 +0000 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1871/ I also have a up-to-date Dual core system, (AMD Athlon X2 64 4800 (2.5Ghz), 2GB Dual channel DDR-2 800) and I can render a short video (100 frames) in Blender3D WHILE listening to music and writing this, and it's running fine! (and I'm rendering with multi-threads)]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:35:39 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:38:11 +0000 It might have something to do with the apllications I'm using, but as I said. Load balancing is not something developers of these kind of applications should have to worry about. To my humble opinion, that is. ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:00 +0000 I don't know if the system can always correctly guess what priority you would like you programs to have.

Maybe if the 'Task Manager' could let you adjust priorities easily and remember them ??

(BTW, have you tried the Ubuntu real time kernel, it is in Synaptic?)]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:41:59 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:04:10 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:26:35 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:59:58 +0000
I also reported the problem here:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3201/]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:40:24 +0000