On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:06 AM, nidhi mittal hada wrote: > A general question asking out of curiosity ... > > regarding scheduling in kernel > > if its a uniprocessor > and > i am playing two songs of 5 mins duration each in two separate music players > then > lets say cpu switches between these two processes ...... > > first song1 is being played ..then song 1 is switched to ready queue from run > queue ... > song2 is played then .. > then song1 will stop playing for that time period ... > and in that way > song1 shd take 10 mins (acc to my clock) > to complete > isnt it ....?
I could be wrong (I'm guessing) but I think that a sort of buffering should be done in the hardware of the sound card so you can hear the sound even if the process is not providing data. -- Carlo Caione -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
