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From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
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Subject: sound is great when under load, bad when not
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This is really peculiar:  Sound when underload is great.  No issues. 
When system is idle, I get odd artifacts that sound like interrupts
aren't being serviced fast enough.  This is on an amd64 3000+ machine
playing mp3s with gnome rythmbox.

Sean