From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17971 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: need advice from the master Date: 19 Oct 1998 21:17:09 -700 Organization: U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86yaqcl36k.fsf@kramer-fast.bp.aventail.com> <5805-Mon19Oct1998224052-0400-ndw@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156576 3668 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA19979 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:18:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAB24647; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:18:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:18:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26940 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:18:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from des.castles.com (hardaker@des.castles.com [208.214.166.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA19958 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:18:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by des.castles.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20740; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:17:11 -0700 Original-To: Norman Walsh X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 X-url: http://dcas.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker In-Reply-To: Norman Walsh's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:40:52 -0400" Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070034 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.34) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17971 >>>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:40:52 -0400, Norman Walsh said: Norman> I held out as long as I could. You did better than me... Really... Norman> Is it just me, or does everyone suffer from really horrific Norman> drop-outs and noise whenever their machine does anything other Norman> than play MP3 files? I woulda thunk a 250Mhz Pentium II was Norman> enough. Silly me. It's just you? I have a 233 P-II, and right now I am playing on mp3, encoding another, typing this message, and I've done compilations at the same time in the past as well. I *occasionally* got a break in the song when doing the compilation as well. But really, it took a load average of at least 2 in order to get a break in performance on decoding mp3s. In fact, playing an mp3 does almost nothing to my load average (a slight change, but nothing drastic) (using xaudio, till I find something better). So, I'm not sure what your problem is... I wonder if MMX has anything to do with it? Isn't it supposed to have MPEG stuff built into it? If so, though, I wouldn't think my linux side would ever take advantage of it. In fact, I'd be shocked if it did. Especially since I think xaudio would have to add support for it as well as the kernel, and I don't think either does... (the most annoying thing is the slower compilations when I'm doing encoding...) (by the way, you know mp3.com has a whole bunch of downloadable free stuff, though I havn't listened to any of it yet) -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."