Howto Improve Performance?

[Dmitry Derjavin]

On Sun, Jul 10 2005 at 20:27, Rainer Gutkas <Rainer.Gutkas at kstp.at> wrote:

> My so far experiences are like this:
>
> Xcfewm: Is a nice Windowmanager, but a ugly buggy thing. So
> currently I'm running it, because it gives a little performance
> plus.

[...]

> ICEWM: Wow this WM really gives a performance boost.

[...]

Take a look at the news from Sunday, 29 May 2005, "E17 is being
optimised" at http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News

I think it's quite interesting and somewhere unexpected.

> But it nearly allows DVD playback without missed frames. But only
> nearly.

Try playing back DVD with Ogle. And check DVD drive dma settings.
Possibly xine-check script from xine-ui package also could give you a
clue.

-- 
~dd