Re: Random hard disk activity.

[Martin Fluch <mfluch@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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