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Hi,

>>>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:40:52 -0400
>>>>> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> said:

 Norman> Is it just me, or does everyone suffer from really horrific
 Norman> drop-outs and noise whenever their machine does anything
 Norman> other than play MP3 files?

Scheduling the player as a real-time-process helps. I patched "nice"
so that it can do scheduler changes. If somebody wants the patches I
can put them up for ftp.

 Norman> I woulda thunk a 250Mhz Pentium II was enough.

It is by far. My Pentium 133 gets about 0.3 load-avarage from mpg123.

	Robbe

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