I see this too: when I listen to tunes and untar a file, the music plays at about .7x the speed, and sounds kind of "robotic", even with xmms niced to -20, and tar/gzip at +20. I am running 5.0-CURRENT-20030320-JPSNAP, so I doubt an 'upgrade' is really going to do anything for you at this time.
-Craig From: "The Anarcat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: playing mp3s and burning a cd >I'm running 5.0-release, so I'm not sure this is the proper forum, but >I'm trying my luck anyways. >I used to listen to MP3s (using xmms) while burning CDs (using >cdrecord) and it used to work fine on -stable. >Now on 5.0-release, the music gets *sloooow* as soon as the massive IO >gets on. I presume it's related to the interrupt problems the current >branch is generally having. >Anyone else seeing this? Should I upgrade to -current? >A. >-- >Seul a un caractère scientifique ce qui peut être réfuté. Ce qui n'est >pas réfutable relève de la magie ou de la mystique. > - Popper, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message