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Re: OT: performance problems.



On Mon, 07 Jan 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > another. With dumb xmms, it cannot help but cause skips. Use something
> > better, with huge output buffers, and you will not have so much trouble. Or
> > patch the kernel.
> 
> xmms output buffer size is configurable:

Good. It still won't help unless the DMA buffers themselves are made big by
that option, but that often requires scatter-gather capability in the
soundcard and kernel driver.

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