Audio after heavy filesystem activity

[Chris Turner]

Hasso Tepper wrote:

At least I have a workaround now, but it's not real fix of course. There 
is obvious performance problem that needs to be fixed.


not to discount any possible kernel improvements, but:

I've got an old PIII 900 that occasionally has trouble with dropouts in 
xmms - have you tried renicing the process ? it seemed to help for me,
although it's a bit of a pain.