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From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
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On 4/27/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> ogg123 never skips. Then i cranked up the load to 50 infinite loops (!).
> No problems whatsoever. No problems at 100 tasks either. No problems
> with 250 (!) nice-0 infinite loops running either:

Different soundcards support different ranges and defaults for buffer
and period sizes and many naive apps don't bother to set a sane buffer
size.  Check the PCM states under /proc/asound/ on both good and bad
configs.

Lee