On Wed, 03 Mar 1999, Matthew Sayler wrote:
>       time x11amp
>
>then play one song and quit.  See what kind of numbers it gives you.
>Right now my guess is that x11amp might spawn a mpg123 session
>as well, which isn't getting charged in your above account.
>
>Even on a PPro 200 (in the CS department) I get the following
>results for running mpg123
>
>[3:41] Decoding of Apocolyptica_Enter.Sandman.mp3 finished.  
>15.280u 0.010k 0:15.35 (99.6%)
>
>15.28 / 221s ~= 6%, and this is the least overhead you could
>have (playing using bare mpg123 straigt to /dev/null instead
>of to a soundcard)

Well, mpg123 sucks then:

% time x11amp                                                                 ~
x11amp  1.42s user 0.16s system 0% cpu 3:18.70 total

1.42s/3:18.70 = 0.7% cpu

Taral
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