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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 3e mpg123 plays on off on off on off on 4e
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Date: Fri,  3 May 2002 10:58:24 -0400
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One more thing to try.

Instead of

	mp3dec < file
or	mp3dec file

do

	cat file | cat | mp3dec

The pipes will get you some buffering
which in turn will induce some readahead.

It could be that we're just not doing a good
job with scheduling this particular task,
although that doesn't really explain the
fs/u9fs discrepancy.

Russ