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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:39 -0700
From:      Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's causing troubles with pcm?
Message-ID:  <20010522162938.A43750@zippy.mybox.zip>
In-Reply-To: <20010522161347.A54429@myhakas.matti.ee>; from vallo@matti.ee on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:13:47PM %2B0200
References:  <20010522161347.A54429@myhakas.matti.ee>

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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:

> Playing mp3's with mpg123 has been quite satistfactory until now.
> Today I've discovered that every execution of sync(8) distorts
> music by means of "stretching" musical phrase. 

The obvious answer would be to not run sync(8) :^)

Likely, what you're seeing is the combo of the pcm driver being pretty
sensitive to other interrupt activity and the ata driver turning off write
caching by default.

- alex

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