From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 19 8:10:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA4C37B759; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00611; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:10:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:10:38 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance? Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I mentioned in another post, since upgrading to 4.0 and converting from Voxware to newpcm, I've noticed quite a significant degradation in audio performance. Whereas my MP3s used to play smoothly until the system load reached a really high level, now I'm getting breakup even with minimal system loads (on a 166MHz P5). Any ideas on how I might improve performance? I've already disabled ATAPI DMA (my system is pure IDE), thinking there may have been a conflict, and am using softupdates as well, but still, anytime the system load increases even slightly, I notice some chop. Thanks for any ideas. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message