Performance Issues with XMMS

[Warren Togami]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 17:29, David St.Clair wrote:
> Anyone notice any performance problems with the beta? I am playing an
> mp3 with xmms and doing a "ls" in a gnome terminal or dragging windows
> around makes my mp3 skip (taking 100% of cpu while dragging).  (Under RH
> 9 this didn't happen) When I am not dragging a window the cpu usage is
> low and the mp3 plays fine.
> 
> I installed the xmms-mp3 package from freshrpms.net built for RH9.

I have noticed this behavior of the xmms-mp3 plugin ever since it had
the NPTL bugfix.  Does the sound still skip if you play OGG files and do
the same thing?  It doesn't for me.

What sound card and kernel module do you use?  (Just curious)

Warren