A 233 Mhz Pentium laptop? Maybe time for a faster one? Also, check to make sure that your disk drive isn't "parked" (or whatever it's called when you automagicly spin down a "live" laptop drive to save power). Brad.C.Elkin at seagate.com wrote: > > > I'm running Mandrake 7.0. > > I use kmp3 to run music for a folk-dance group off of my laptop, but the playback skips every-so-often. > I'm assuming that it's a buffer underrun, but I don't know how to monitor kmp3. It is most definitely intermittent, unrepeatable, indeterminate > behavior and all of those other > descriptions you learn in CSci when you have battling processes. > I have a 233 Mhz Pentium with the Opl3SAx sound chipset and I use the standard drivers installed. kmp3 seems to use about 15% of the cpu and very > little disk time. > I've tried tuning with hdparm and removed the at and cron daemons. I run kmp3 at nice -19. Only one daemon, mdrecoveryd, seems to be running with > a higher priority.(and I don't know what it does) > I also tried alsaplayer, which also skips, and occasionally the sound drops out completely. > > Is there a debug mode or other way that I can monitor system performance so that I can look in (some) log file or messages file to see what else is > happening when kmp3 skips? > It looks like there is very little disk activity while running kmp3. Is it just accepted that kmp3 occasionally skips? > (Am I missing some key tunable system parameter?) > Any suggestions on other lists I can write to? > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >