On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:06:32 -0800 Joshua Smith <bgcladd at gmail.com> wrote: > A straight file copy yields sustained 20mbit transfer rate. However, > Mplayer will fill the min cache, quickly blow through the buffer and > begin to lag. I see mplayer is only pulling down the file at about > 300-600kB/s and wont fill the cache any faster. Run "top" while this is happening. Does CPU usage (User/Sys/Wait) time go up to 100%, with ~0% idle? With encryption + network traffic + video decoding, it wouldn't be hard at all to overwhelm your CPU, whether with computation time, or just interrupts. -- Ha. I'm the idiot.
