THANK YOU!! This seems to have solved the issue. Thankfully I had
already set
/tmp to be an in-memory filesystem so this will do wonders. I'm assuming
you haven't had any issues with the firefox cache being blown away every
reboot? Doesn't really matter anyway, I prefer good audio over firefox
having
a clean cache every time. Now I can listen to my music while I work and not
have to cringe ;)
On 8/7/22 14:44, Mihai Popescu wrote:
Courtney, I will try to suggest something.
First, I was having problems in the past with Firefox. I use to let
mpv play in the background ( a stream of internet radio) and the sound
has stuttering and pauses whenever Firefox loaded some pages. I was
told to use sndio for mpv as an option with ao=sndio in the mpv.conf.
I did this and the problem was gone.
Next, you could try something just to check. It is a shoot in the
dark, but I use it for something else.
I have an old computer, and the browsing was very slow. The disk (
mechanical) was spinning like hell whenever a page was loaded, both
Firefox and Chromium. Looking on internet, I found that browsers are
using caching on the disk a lot. I see you are using SSD, but here it
is anyway;
Do a backup:
# cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.install
Change the entry for the /tmp partition to look like this:
swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=1g 0 0
Reboot in single user mode, using -s at boot prompt and do this on the shell:
# mount -uw /
#chmod 1777 /tmp
# reboot
Let it boot normally and issue this inside a terminal:
$ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp firefox
Then do your job with sound and check for stuttering. If it is fine
now, use it like this. If not, just reverse the fstab backup and try
something else. Please report here, too :).
