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Im runnin LM8.1 using kernel 2.4.8-26 and have absolutely no problem playin
MP3s while using grip at the same time doing my normal stuff--email etc
- --since Im not a gamer I cant say anything about that but I have no problem
doing any of the above---by the way I was dl at the same time if that means
anything
AMD 600 Athalon
329 megs ram
3 HDDs--2-40 gig 1-60 gig
Soundblaster Live(with an unusable faceplate)
Asus A7V mobo 133 AGP set
so seems your system is beefier---I might suggest that there is another prob
other than distro-----I use xmms to play back and have no prob.
I forgot to mention that I use gramophile to convert vinyl----which also
works just fine. I am by no means a guru or any kind of linux power user I
use it cause it is comparitively virus free and works well for what I do--no
crashes or freezes and is more than cost effective ----just my two cents
- --for what thats worth.
AJ
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ron KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> > Hi all:
> > > Ron KA4INM Youvan wrote: (that's me)
> > >
> > > > Anybody know of a RAM disk program that I can use to pre-cash
> > > > stuff I am playing ?
> >
> > SB live value using :
> > 2.2.16, 2.2.19, 2.4.5 which is broken IMMHO, took me 4 hours
> > to recover my 40 gig /hda1 after a lockup, get 2 or 3 a day,
> > I will return to 2.2.19 ASAP.
> > Playing .wav, and/or .mp3's with everything I have.
> > (a nice of -20 helps but I can not have any disk activity
> > while playing or recording a .wav file or I get skips.
> > (both Slackware 7.1 and 8.0, with a 266 mHz/64 meg and
> > 1 gig AMD/1 gig of DDR ram) Becoming disillusioned with
> > LINUX. (been 100% LINUX since June 1998)
> >
> > BTW changing mommy boards/CPU/RAM only made a slight
> > improvement in a few operations, compiling was the only
> > noticeable speed improvement I could sense, when changed
> > from 2.2.19 to 2.4.5 everything now takes 1/4 of the
> > previous time, boot up is 1/2 a minute less time, things
> > fly by, too bad it locks up and so very often too.
> > I also had my very first core dump with LINUX on the screen,
> > said: the kernel has made a memory allocation out of range
> > (gave a multi-digit address) said core dump, had all
> > registers shown, full screen of stuff, modem stopped dead,
> > keyboard dead, looked to me like OS dead.
>
> 2.4.5 was not really that great of a kernel build.. if you want to try a
> 2.4.x kernel the 2.4.9-ac16[17|18] have had good reports and seem to have
> better VM/swap performance.. What kind of worload do you normally have?? I
> play mp3s along with doing other stuff all the time on a PII 400/385MB ram
> system all the time..
>
> (2.4.10-ac1 is out but I haven't seen a lot of user comments about it
> yet..)
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