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I use raw mplayer to play video, DeaDBeeF to play audio and Skype for VoIP. Heavy CPU-consuming processes (like rendering a website in Firefox, redrawing a Java IDE window or compilation) cause disturbances in multimedia playback processes. How to overcome this? I'd agree to those CPU-consuming processes to be a bit slower if it won't disturb multimedia playback.

Ivan
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to change a running process (as mentioned above : renice -n -20 <pid>

or viva GUI

gnome-system-monitor => Processes => RightClick => ChangePriority

aatdark
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Try playing with the nice command on a console (hint: man nice)

sudo nice foo –15 &

Will start application foo at an "elevated" priority of -15 (less is more :D)

OR

Not exactly what you ask for, but try using the a realtime kernel, it's more responsive and the apps "seems to hang less".

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