Re: playing MP3 vs CPU usage

[Yau Chan]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
> 
> Linux actually has some problems in this area, especially on slow computers.
> The trick is to increase audio buffers of your mp3 player (what player are you
> using ?),

I'm using mpg123 to play it.
How can I increase the audio buffer of it?

> plus tuning your EIDE disk with
> hdparm -d 1 -u 1 -m 8 -c 1  /dev/hda
> because when there are disk accesses, the kernel stalls sometimes, especially
> when you run non-DMAed disks
> most distros don't tune your disk properly.

what does that command do?  I'm use an EIDE non-DMAed harddisk.
does that line of command tune all kind of disks?
Does the size of disk matter?


So many questions. =P  Thanks for helping me.


Ben.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])