Fellows When the JVM plays .au files on my machine it seems to be suffering jittering and glitches. I think this happens because the sound playing green thread is not getting enough CPU to push mu law bytes down to /dev/audio. I am using black-down libc5 jdk1.1.7-v1a and Slackware Linux kernel 2.0.36 with 32MB RAM 200MHz Pentium II machine. Is this fixable? Is my machine or the kernel or the JVM or the sound driver oss/free ? BTW: Rebooting my machine into Win95 and playing audio via Micro$oft JVM is a lot cleaner. So I dont think my machine's performance is at fault. Any ideas appreciated. Cheers Pete **** freeinstaller is almost here! ****