Matthias Welwarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's not the performance boost that's interesting here. It's the
> ability to keep the soundcard well fed with data while the machine
> is under high load.  However, a load of 4 is not quite what I'd
> expect. How is the cpu utilization of artsd then, as shown by "top"?

Isn't that the semantics of load, to display some measurement of the
number of running processes. I might well be wrong, but AFAIR a load
of 4 does not always mean more CPU usage than a load of 1, only that
the scheduler has to serve more processes?

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