Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:57:25 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: swapping under 2.1.12[5-7?] |
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Simon Kirby wrote:
[snip woe of pausing mp3s] > Run a "vmstat 1" in another console while running mpg123 and see what > happens when the pauses occur. If you see the "bo" field active, then > it's writing out data to disk...if you see the "so" field active, it's > swapping out to disk, etc. My guess is that bdflush might be syncing at > large intervals and you have a collection of stuff building up in your > buffers...
I agree, this combined with IDE defaulting to disable ints and you'd easily get pauses.
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