From: Yau Chan <ychan@cs.wisc.edu>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: playing MP3 vs CPU usage
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 05:16:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-93581716806941@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-93577292904421@msgid-missing>
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
>
> Linux actually has some problems in this area, especially on slow computers.
> The trick is to increase audio buffers of your mp3 player (what player are you
> using ?),
I'm using mpg123 to play it.
How can I increase the audio buffer of it?
> plus tuning your EIDE disk with
> hdparm -d 1 -u 1 -m 8 -c 1 /dev/hda
> because when there are disk accesses, the kernel stalls sometimes, especially
> when you run non-DMAed disks
> most distros don't tune your disk properly.
what does that command do? I'm use an EIDE non-DMAed harddisk.
does that line of command tune all kind of disks?
Does the size of disk matter?
So many questions. =P Thanks for helping me.
Ben.
(ychan@cs.wisc.edu)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-28 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-27 16:31 playing MP3 vs CPU usage Yau Chan
1999-08-27 18:06 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-28 5:16 ` Yau Chan [this message]
1999-08-28 8:52 ` Benno Senoner
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