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SubjectRe: swapping under 2.1.12[5-7?]
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>>>>> "EW" == Ely Wilson <plexus@ionet.net> writes:

EW> After about an hour of music I notice that the music will stop
EW> dead for a moment, sometimes a split second, sometimes for several
EW> seconds. Meanwhile there is heavy disk action and then playing
EW> resumes.

EW> This appears to me that teh kernel is swapping out LARGE amount
EW> sof memory as this is only happening after new songs are loaded
EW> after enough songs to fill my physical memory have been played.

Some disks require a small pause once in a while. That may be what you
are seeing. It could also be your cron.hourly running.

Try running without swap and see if it still happens.


Benny


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