> I can pretty much confirm this on an X220i, I have sort of come to terms > with it, but it is definitely noticeable (in chromium and firefox). X220 here.
> Also, when I play clips on YouTube, playback sometimes hangs for half a > second. That is with a snapshot from today. To be safe, I also > recompiled sndio from CVS to make sure I didn't miss the previously > mentioned patch. While it does seem to have improved the situation, it's > not entirely fixed. Noticed this, too. Running with hw.perfpolicy=high solves it for me, unless there is heavy disk I/O then it starts stuttering again. > My guess is that this is due to missing SMP features/support, but I'm > not entirely sure. My guess is that disk I/O takes precedence, and cpu C-state transitions should be avoided while audio/video playback...
