From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 30 20:36:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.syntegra.com (ns1.syntegra.com [150.143.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD73537BF3D for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:36:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clg1@daemon.arh.ms.cdc.com) Received: from [129.179.161.11] by ns1.cdc.com with ESMTP for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:36:42 -0500 Received: from daemon.arh.ms.cdc.com by cdsms.cdc.com with ESMTP for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:36:41 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:36:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "Christopher L. Goetzke" Reply-To: "Christopher L. Goetzke" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound skipping In-Reply-To: <20000430141201.A79175@seanrees.com> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > I've been diddling with my FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE installation. Its going to > be -STABLE later tonight or tomorrow. > > Anyhoo, I compiled up the xmms port (no modifications) and when I play a song > I seem to get a lot of skips. I think its directly related to the cpu usage > at the time of mp3 playing. I never get this in Linux, even if the CPU is > 100% busy. I tend to get skips while playing audio with mp3blaster; as a quick-n-dirty workaround, I fire it up at nice -10 (actually, I usually renice it). That seems to work for me. YMMV. CLG -- Christopher L. Goetzke Consultant/Ronin Technomancer Syntegra (USA), Inc. Christopher.L.Goetzke@syntegra.com We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message