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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>
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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


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