Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:42:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bahman <bahman.sg@goteborg.mail.telia.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808221642020.27863-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000901bdcc1c$e2be12e0$87a1c6c3@default>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Bahman wrote: > I have a computer with an AMD K6-2 300mhz processor, a Epox 100mhz > motherboard, a Soundblaster 16 soundcard, a Fujitsu UDMA harddrive, a 10x > IDE > cd-rom drive and Win98. My problem is that when I play a music CD it uses a > lot more CPU power than it should. Every second it jumps from 3% to 70-80%. > This makes other software stop and ít is impossible to do anything while > using the CD-player. I have tried several different CD-players and software > including Win98s CDplayer. I have tested this on Intel based computers with > Win98 and Win95 and none of them had this problem. I've also tested it with > the soundcard disabled. I would like to know if you have any suggestions > other than changing my processor and motherboard to Intel. Use 'top' and see which command is sucking all the CPU. I assume this is under FreeBSD; you didn't mention a version. This is not a Win98 support list, btw :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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