[Linux-Discussion] Re: XMMS help

  • From: James Gosnell <goose@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:20:35 -0500

John Madden wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have problems with XMMS pausing or caching in the middle of
> > certain io or cpu intensive processes. I'll be doing smoething as simple
> > as ftping something and playing mp3s and it does this pausing for a
> > second throughout the whole song. I know my processor and hard drive
> > aren't too overloaded. It works wonderfully under Windows. I've maxed
> > the buffer in the XMMS options too. Any suggestions?
> 
> That's pretty odd -- I've *never* had xmms skip, even through a kernel
> build, on *any* hardware I've tried it on.  What do you have for
> disks/cpu/memory?
> 
> John

8 gig at 33
Athlon 500
256MB RAM

I've never had it skip before I upgraded to Slack 8 either. It doesn't
really skip. It's more like a pause. I havne't got a clue. And I don't
think it's with XMMS.

James

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