Hello:

I really have no idea in which terms I should explain this, so if I'm unclear, please ask for clarification: I'll offer it as best I can.

Again, I have a problem with foobar2000, the audio player without which my life is woefully incomplete; I've run in with wine and vmware. Vmware is unacceptable - it's slow and irritating to use for a single program. In wine, foobar works well, but whenever I use another program that requires even moderate use of the processor, the audio skips and freaks out. My question:

I'm searching for a method of ensuring that foobar always has a certain proportion of the processor's clock time, that is, I want to have say 10% of the processor's time devoted to foobar - even if foobar doesn't require it. I'm not at all sure that this will solve the skipping, but I suppose it's worth a try. Having a slight overhead while running the player might be annoying, but it's better than the alternative.

Also, is it possible to do this with memory as well? In essence, I want to completely isolate foobar from the rest of the computer, to make sure that no other process preempts it or even disturbs it at all.

Thanks,
Justin.

My personal recommendation (and I know this is not the answer you are looking for), but moving to another media player (I know what you are thinking, because I think the same things when someone gives me similar advise). But I moved from foobar to XMMS and it still does a good job. I would look in that direction before trying isolate foobar (resource-wise). I am sure there is some out there in lin-world that can satisfy you (there are plenty of options).

diilbert

I've tried many-many-many, and none weigh up to foobar; quodlibet was close, but python is unendurably slow.

In any case, let's treat this as a generic question about isolating processes (resource-wise as you wisely put it); I think even it would be nice to be able to allocate 50% of the processor to a compilation job, so the computer won't experience any sort of slow-down (at least perceptibly with normal usage).

Hopefully someone has a good answer to this, since I would be interested in this resource limiting technique as well.