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