Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:48:56 +0100


Hi!

> I was unable to make mpg123 skip under 2.2.3 this morning, either
> unloaded or loaded. The loaded case was a load average of 3 (10% idle)
> and included a kernel compile, writing a cd, playing mp3s with mpg123,
> converting mp3s and some other nonsense while reading mail.

Run make -j and make sure it goes 30% into swap. That way, nearly
anything will start to skip.

Pavel

PS: If you was unable to make player skip, you just did not try hard
enough. Unfortunately, unless we switch to real-time-OS with
real-time-filesystem, hellish things like make -j of kernel on 32meg
machine _will_ make sound skip.

PPS: If you have solution which really works, I'm interested. Right
now I'm running

root@bug:~# nice -n -20 splay -t 500 -s `find /tmp/mp3.2/`

.. it behaves pretty well, but when I ran make -j on linux kernel,
machine got LAV ov 34, and took 20M of swap (on 32Meg machine), splay
just stopped playing.

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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