On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:01:23AM +0100, Hans wrote: > I have an old box which acts as radio/cd-player/mp3-player. When I play > mp3s, every few minutes (2-6 min, no particular time) there is hard disk > activity which brings the mp3 player to a halt for a few seconds after > which it continues (too few CPU cycles to decode the mp3 maybe?). I haven't > been able to find out what process causes this.
Perhaps you might try to enable buffer for the mp3 player. For example I have problems on my P233 machine to run mpg123 some_music_piece.mp3 but mpg123 -b 2048 some_music_piece.mp3 which enables a 2MB buffer for the decoded audio data is big enought for me to avoid interupts of any kind... Martin
