[desktop-discuss] Choppy audio on decent hardware

[John Martin]

Matthew Stevenson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can play mp3 audio though Rhythmbox fine, the only problem is that it 
> momentarily pauses when I do thinks like moving windows around, alt-tabbing 
> between windows, switching tabs in Firefox, clicking the mouse, opening a new 
> folder in nautilus, and anything that causes CPU spikes. It also does this if 
> I use Totem. What could be the cause of it, and how can it be prevented?
>
> My hardware is a - 2GHz amd64 CPU with 2GB RAM - shouldn't have any problems 
> at all playing music. I've been using OpenSolaris for about 6 months, hoping 
> with each /dev release that this issue would go away, but it's still there 
> for me in 2009.06 (snv_117).
>   
What does "cat /dev/sndstat" report?