Re: Disk IO scheduling down the drain again

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:

> The subject says it all.
>
> Has anyone lately tried listening to an mp3 stream and extract a large
> tarball?  You're bound to get skipping.
Not here.  Not under any conceivable load.

'Course, the music is across the room on Marantz, Teac, Akai, etc.
 ... where it belongs... Give 'em a HDD for storage if you must...

(ever try attaching a pair of *serious* spekaers, i.e. Klipsch horns,
or good-sized Bass-reflex with Helmholtz resonators to a Pee Cee?)

> And then there's of course the dual make and mp3 listening case, where you
> see one make process totally run down the other and where the mp3 playing
> becomes more silence than audio.

De-install the MP3 player in favor of 'bespoke' sound system (i.e. not a 
computer)
- problem goes away.  Totally.    ;-)

> But that's definitely not my area to work on.

'ipse dixit'

;-)