Well, for start i would look at top a bit during lag, to see any waits happening and where does the system spend most time.
High sys values are not good indicator in most cases.
Next, one should always try to examine what has changed in the video driver stack.
Can you show output of following commands as root or using sudo on both versions of operating system ?
Perhaps more when we determine the model and make, like modinfo and lsmod
Can you confirm that you are running operating system exclusively from medium/memory, it is not installed on disk(s) ?
I wonder string constant exists permanently or temporary.
For example,
printf("hello, world");
the function printf access to it is through a pointer. Does it mean storage is allocated for the string constant to exist permanently in memory? :confused: (4 Replies)
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xfmpc(1) User Commands xfmpc(1)NAME
xfmpc - graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint.
DESCRIPTION
Xfmpc is a MPD (Music Player Daemon) client, with focus on low footprint for the Xfce desktop environment.
ENVIRONMENT
MPD_HOST - Server Hostname.
MPD_PORT - Server Port.
USAGE
To connect to a remote machine set the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT. See mpc(1) for more information
Default Keybindings
Go backward - Ctrl+B
Play/Pause -Ctrl+P
Stop - Ctrl+S
Go forward - Ctrl+F
Volume - Ctrl+V
Quit - Ctrl+Q
Playlist and Filter Entry
Activate selected song - Enter
Clear entry and recenter to current song - Escape
Database Browser
Go to parent directory - BackSpace
Add a multiple selection to the playlist - Enter
BUGS
To report a bug against xfmpc (*not* the Debian package, but the client itself), please go to:
<URL:http://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xfce%20Goodies>
SEE ALSO
About mpd
mpc(1)
About XFCE Goodies
<URL:http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfmpc>
<URL:http://goodies.xfce.org/start>
AUTHOR
(c) 2008 - 2009 Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@xfce.org>
xfmpc May 2009 xfmpc(1)