Sound problem -- better defined

[Net Llama]

--- Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> No, but I'm not playing MP3's... but I'd sure like to know how you got
> yours 
> set up ;-)
> 
> What I'm doing is recording vinyl lps as WAVs (with krecord) and
> cleaning 
> them of background noise, pops and clicks with The Gnome Wave Cleaner
> (gwc). 
> All on the host of any remote X session that might be going on. So I'm
> not 
> logged in remotely, one of the other family members is (and it's only
> one, 
> since we have only 2 PCs), and they're the ones interfering with the
> playback 
> of the WAV file (alledgedly -- the jury's still out). That being said,
> I'm 
> leaning away from it being a device permissions issue at all, and more
> likely 
> a simple RAM issue. 
> GWC will load the entire WAV file (as much as 70 or so MB) into RAM. I
> think 
> the burden of that, plus a remote X session, plus whatever else I
> might have 
> open locally is working my RAM pretty hard. That and the fact that GWC
> is 
> beta code could be the cause of the problem. 
> What I haven't tried, is whether any other multimedia apps experience
> a 
> problem with playback when a remote X session is active. I'll probly
> test 
> that tomorrow.

If the problem is RAM (and this sounds quite unlikely from the symptoms)
then you should be able to monitor the behavior via free.

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