Xmms FreeBSD and buzzing or skipping sound

[Jason Henson]

On 01/20/05 20:57:12, Derek wrote:
> Collin McClendon wrote:
> 
>> I've noticed for quite some time (at least on 5.x even before - 
>> CURRENT) that if I'm unzipping or tarring a file that it is enough  
>> to make xmms play mp3s with intermittent buzzing. I have a fairly  
>> fast machine, dual athlon 1.53 Ghz with 1 GB of ram and a fully scsi  
>> setup, 4 10K maxtors in a Raid 0 stripe set.
> 
> Did you ever find a solution to this Collin?
> 
> I've got a 5.3-STABLE SMP machine, with a promise RAID controller,
> RAID1, with snd_emu10k1.ko, and I get the same results...  Re-nicing
> xmms doesn't help either...
> 
> Cheers,
> Derek
>

Could this be a problem of resource hoging on the pci bus?  Are the  
devices on different irqs?

I just tried it without problem, but it was a small file.  I have a  
single 2ghz athlon with builtin audio and a single ide drive.