From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yau Chan Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 05:16:32 +0000 Subject: Re: playing MP3 vs CPU usage Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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)