Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:04:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:43:38 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel > <riel@nl.linux.org> said: > > > MP3 playing during FS reads work great, yes. But the > > problem is that clustered readins also cause larger > > amounts of FS writing on smaller machines, and that's > > where things start to break down. > > Umm, the readin algorithms really have very litte impact on the > amount of write IO we generate or the way in which we submit it. > It does obviously impact the disk scheduling of the submitted > writes, of course.
OK, then where does the MP3 skipping come from and why don't people see it as much on 2.0?
> Frankly, Unix has really never supported disk IO stream bandwidth > reservation. If mp3 needs it, it should be buffering disk IO > itself. "mpg123 -b 1024" works wonders here.
Sure, that works. But why is it needed now where people didn't need it on a 2.0 system?
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