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From: Benno Senoner <sbenno@gardena.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:10:51 +0000
Subject: Re: sound card overhead?
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, James Stevenson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> i was just wondering about this
> how much difference will a sound card make
> which seems to be generating 600/700 interuppts a second
> to the rest of the system performance?
> 
> thanks
> 	James

I ran my stresstests with fragments of 1.5ms = about 600 interrupts/sec on
my PII box + SB AWE64 , I can't feel a big system slowdown,
it works just fine.
(Maybe you can measure it, by running some CPU bound benchmark while
playing audio)

regards,
Benno.