It was/is the case for me too ! :-( The workaround I use is to increase buffer size to its maximum, i.e. 13MB, with 50% to upper pre buffer. It works quite nicely, but I feel it's a dirty workaround...
Nevertheless it allows me to play mp3 and ogg on my 700MHz Athlon with 384MB of RAM, even with cumulated/simultaneous : _ high FTP loads (with vsftp in FTP mode, didn't tested with SFTP) _ web browsing through Firefox (10 tabs) _ Gaim 1.5 _ Xchat. _ Bluefish _ 3 xterms But it keeps micro-freezing sometimes, and memory load is around 360MB (of 384). :-| <mylife> I didn't complain as I was warned OBSD is quite "server oriented", It was quite a challenge to use it for everyday desktops tasks. The main problem I have is the VERY SLOW PAGE SCROLLING in web pages... And I don't know how to fix it, if it's possible. </mylife> On 5/18/06, Martin Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. It is not a serious problem, it just annoys me that my OpenBSD installation apparently does not perform as well as my friend's Debian GNU/Linux installation, which does not suffer from the problem. It _is_ a matter of honor :) Any help is appreciated, but my primary objective is to find out whether I am the only person experiencing this problem. I run OpenBSD 3.9-release on an IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop with all file sets except bsd.mp. The relevant, installed packages are: esound-0.2.34p0 libao-0.8.5p2 libid3tag-0.15.1bp0 libmad-0.15.1bp1 xmms-1.2.10p6 I have tried increasing the buffer size and pre-buffer percent in Preferences -> Audio I/O Plugins -> MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player 1.2.10 [libmpg123.so} -> Configure -> Streaming to as high as 4096 kb and 50%. It did not help. However, maybe these values only affect streaming (over networks). /Martin
