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Subject: Re: FreeBSD sound distortion problems with SB Live! fixed with  
 PREEMPTION
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Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 23:48 -0700, Travis Poppe wrote:
> ...
> 
>>To my amazement, it worked completely. Enabling PREEMPTION in the kernel
>>completely "fixes" this problem to the fullest extent. I have not been
>>able to reproduce the problem since using any of the methods described
>>above.

> Unfortunately PREEMPTION remains to be completely unusable for me. The
> system freezes within 5 minutes.

> I wonder if no one else gets this kind of problem.

Not exactly a freeze, but PREEMPTION doesn't help me at all with SB Live 
(slowdowns, stuttering sound, etc.), especially with large amounts of 
filesystem operations (this is 5-stable).