The same occures during some network activity. I noticed it when I had my python script get some data through ssh from several hosts simultaneously. The sound from cmus worked with big interruptions till the script finished its work.
-- Best regards Maksim Rodin 19.06.2018, 10:24, "Jordan Geoghegan" <jgeoghega...@gmail.com>: > On 06/18/18 11:58, Родин Максим wrote: >> May be the system becomes ... too busy to serve these actions >> simultaneously? >> It seemed to me that any task which made decent use of computer >> resources was able to cause that behavior. > > It would seem you're right. I just tried maxing out my workstation (i7 > 3770, 16GB ram) and with nearly all 16GB ram occupied (over 100 firefox > tabs, 10 Libreoffice instances, Thunderbird etc) I have been able to > consistently reproduce this issue. > When I copy a large block of text from LibreOffice, the audio > skips/stutters as Maxim described. Once I get the machine swapping, it's > game over-- it becomes nigh impossible to play music. Closing down > firefox and letting reaper do its magic (or just reducing ram usage in > general) seems to resolve the issue. > > Just my 2 cents, > > Cheers, > Jordan
