On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:52:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown > 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70 > 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% system, 1.0% nice, 75.9% idle
Although I think that ALSA sounds like the most likely source of trouble, based on previous responses, I'll also point out that, with load in the 3-4 range but CPU at 75% idle, your major bottleneck is most likely I/O, not processor time, so nice isn't likely to help much (if at all). -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
