Hi I had a similar experience with my setup (athlon_xp, redhat 8 planetccrma, sblive emu10k1) changing the old IDE cables for brand new ATA133, fixed it!. just my personal experience. cheers, cables. On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, rob fell wrote: > Hi Alex > > > i see that both your mouse (?!) and your network card seem to have > > higher priority than your IDE channels (harddisks). > > i would advice you to try without the network card and not to move > > your mouse =) > > believe it or not i did try an "ifconfig eth0 down" to see if it would improve > the situation! (i did say i was getting desperate). > > > and what Mark Knecht said about period size for the SB soundcards is > > also slightly touched here: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/jack/ > > your 128 setting might be too small. did you try with 256 or 512? > > looks like no-one is using anything as cruddy as a SB128 PCI anymore (and with > good reason). > > when Mark suggested that the card might not be man-enough for the job i > realised that my internal model of how a soundcard works might be a little > naive - i suspect it has more than a lump of DP ram and some counters :) > > i set the buffersize smaller to try to act as a crude filter to make my awk > script simpler - though this neglects the effect on the card itself of > running at a higher rate. > > the most success so far with the testing seems to be at 1024 - though large > file copies causes massive xruns at any rate (BTW: how large would a 'large' > file be?). > > i can't decide whether to gamble on the purchase of a decent card and hope > this all goes away, or whether to read the alsa driver code for the card to > see if i can work out just how bad the card really is :( > > > > > and ofcourse... good luck. > > looks like i may need it - and some more spare time. thanks. > > R
