Josh, try turning ACPI off. I have learned that some poor ACPI implementations interfere greatly with CPU horsepower, and this may be causing your problems. You might try other kernel options as well, including leaving ACPI on but turning IOAPIC off, because if IOAPIC is off, multi-CPU functionality including hyperthreading does not have the needed registers, and is therefore disabled. J.E.B. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user