Sorry, I couldn't conclude anything, and perhaps your logic is not stupid.
I run xmms too and with a playlist of < 100 from mp3 CD, the machine does
stop for a fraction of a sec (netscape jerks up, vim takes slightly more
time to save, protein molecules rotate slower etc) everytime the song
buffer runs out. I guess the read-ahead buffering for xmms is not properly
implemented or something like that. And with a playlist > 1000 you know
why your machine is freezing ;-)
best wishes,
Indraneel
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Disillusioned wrote:
> 1. XMMS keeps a playlist. not sure of XMMS but read that winamp's palylist
> cud go upto 26 megs and more. Assuming the same for XMMS.
> 2. XMMS runs in two modes Random'ed playlist and Contiguous playlist
> traversel.
> 3. System used to freeze in the former mode (count of songs in the list
> ~1000). Maybe because of instantaneous shift from one location in mem to
> another.
> 4. System does not (as of now) freeze if playlist is run in the latter mode
> or the number of songs in the list is lesser in the former mode.
>
> By now you must have concluded. let me know if this stupid logic makes sense
> to you.
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