On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:57:56AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 
> My main problem right now is, 
> CPU states: 99.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.5% system,  0.5% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Why is mp321 eating all the CPU ?
>

decoding mp3 does take a bit of cpu grunt to do.  I know with some of
the older laptops I had I could not play mp3's and compile at the same
time.  That and sometimes authors will generate assembly code for i386
processors but have generic C code for other processors so even on a
lower spec i386 box the program will perform better.
 
-- 
Brett Lymn