Re: sound card overhead?

[Benno Senoner]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, James Stevenson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> i was just wondering about this
> how much difference will a sound card make
> which seems to be generating 600/700 interuppts a second
> to the rest of the system performance?
> 
> thanks
>       James

I ran my stresstests with fragments of 1.5ms = about 600 interrupts/sec on
my PII box + SB AWE64 , I can't feel a big system slowdown,
it works just fine.
(Maybe you can measure it, by running some CPU bound benchmark while
playing audio)

regards,
Benno.