From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 24 11:36: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E02A37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from neptune.he.net (neptune.he.net [216.218.166.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1A243F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:36:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fluid@sfmidimafia.com) Received: from sfmidimafia.com (stalwart.codysbooks.COM [209.133.54.175]) by neptune.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id LAA27963; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:35:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3E7F5E16.5080908@sfmidimafia.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:35:50 -0800 From: "Scott R." Organization: SFMM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Anarcat Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: playing mp3s and burning a cd References: <20030324173510.GA831@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-23.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Anarcat wrote: > I'm running 5.0-release, so I'm not sure this is the proper forum, but > I'm trying my luck anyways. > > I used to listen to MP3s (using xmms) while burning CDs (using > cdrecord) and it used to work fine on -stable. > > Now on 5.0-release, the music gets *sloooow* as soon as the massive IO > gets on. I presume it's related to the interrupt problems the current > branch is generally having. > > Anyone else seeing this? Should I upgrade to -current? Yes, I'm seeing this as well. More specifically, whenever there is heavy disk I/O, mp3 playback gets that slow, robotic quality you describe. It's really irritating. It doesn't seem to be as bad in current as it was in 5.0-RELEASE, but it's still a bit of a nuissance. I'm running current from March 7. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message