RE: high cpu usage when playing mp3's
It's not normal at all IMO.
Can you try to run "top" when playing mp3 to see which process(es) use(s)
your CPU?
Vincent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Motch [mailto:julienmotch@skynet.be]
> Sent: Friday 4 October 2002 13:43
> To: 'debian-laptop@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: high cpu usage when playing mp3's
>
>
> Hello everybody ,
>
> I have just finished to install and configure a debian 3.0
> which runs on
> a toshiba satellite 210C (Pentium 120Mhz ,16Mo RAM and 1Go HD ).I can
> use xfree3.3.6 or the 4.1.0 in 800x600 16 bits and my
> soundcard (chipset
> ess668 ) seems to work fine .But when I am playing mp3 in
> text mode with
> mpg321 the cpu usage is more or less 90% and sometimes the sound is
> scratchy .Do you think it is normal or do I have to better
> configure my
> system (I remember my first linux on a pentium 100Mhz and I
> was playing
> mp3 under X without any problem ) .
>
> Thanks to all ,
>
> Julien
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