Subject: Re: DBRI audio
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/16/2005 12:51:23
On 2005.07.16 20:55:03 +0000, Brett Lymn wrote:
 | 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.

Yes, indeed, but why does the music stops for a bit ? Is it because 
dbri0 is at a lower interrupt level ?

		-- Rui Paulo