also sprach Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> [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...
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