On Thu, 09.09.2004 at 02:47:40 -0400, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > FYI, after a few IRC discussions with Markus, we've discovered that > turning off the memory part of Gnome's System Monitor applet, would get > rid of the skips. I believe the problem is that both sysctl and the > sound drivers are Giant-locked, and so there is some contention. An > easy way to reproduce these skips is to run `while true; do sysctl > vm.vmtotal; done`, while playing an mp3. Not repdrocueable here on 5.3-BETA3. Even extracting the Mozilla sources no longer produces skips ind mp3 playback. pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 5 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec> % cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> at io 0xb800, 0xbc40 irq 5 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/4v channels duplex default) Ulrich Spoerlein -- PGP Key ID: F0DB9F44 Get it while it's hot! PGP Fingerprint: F1CE D062 0CA9 ADE3 349B 2FE8 980A C6B5 F0DB 9F44 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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