Subject: Re: DBRI audio
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/16/2005 12:51:23
On 2005.07.16 20:55:03 +0000, Brett Lymn wrote:
| On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:57:56AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
| >
| > My main problem right now is,
| > CPU states: 99.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.5% system, 0.5% interrupt, 0.0% idle
| > Why is mp321 eating all the CPU ?
| >
|
| decoding mp3 does take a bit of cpu grunt to do. I know with some of
| the older laptops I had I could not play mp3's and compile at the same
| time. That and sometimes authors will generate assembly code for i386
| processors but have generic C code for other processors so even on a
| lower spec i386 box the program will perform better.
Yes, indeed, but why does the music stops for a bit ? Is it because
dbri0 is at a lower interrupt level ?
-- Rui Paulo