also sprach Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0656 +0100]: > Yes, there's something very wrong. I can easily do a good deal of work > (several concurrent kernel compiles, for example) on my 600 MHz > workstation + 256 MB RAM with no skips from my mp3 player.
:( > > One thing that I haven't seen you mention in this thread is whether > you're having your mp3 player buffer data in RAM. Look at the '-b' flag > to mpg123. yes, it's set to 4096, which is 4Mb, which is 4 minutes, which is enough! i haven't tried with xmms yet... anyway, something weird is going on right now. i have the following running: cat /dev/hda | bzip > /dev/null cat /dev/hda | md5sum make-kpkg binary mpg123 -b 4096 and the mpg123 didn't skip once yet. then again, there is no X, this is all just console. and i killed about 10000000000 other processes... > XMMS can do something similar, I'm sure. Without this, you > rely on your disk being able to feed data to your mp3 player fast enough > for the player to not skip. If there's lots of other disk activity, > this is not likely to be possible. How fast is your disk? i am not sure, but i'd assume it to be a 5400. unfortunately. > Also, I would move away from kernel 2.4.9 if I were you. It had a VM > bug that caused it to leak swap. I ran it for a good while, and > stability-wise it's fine, but swap never seems to get freed. Later > versions were pretty good, though. 2.4.13+ seem great to me. jajaja. this is a test and compile system, and mp3 player. the kernel package is long ready and installed, but i haven't had time or processor cycles available to reboot ;) it's on 2.4.17 now... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] micro$oft dns service terminates abnormally when it receives a response to a dns query that was never made. fix information: run your dns service on a different platform. -- bugtraq
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