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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:08:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote:
>
> After watchning /proc/interrupts with 30 second intervals I see that I
> only get 43 interrupts/second when playing 16bit 44.1kHz stereo.

That's _exactly_ what you get with a 4kB fragment size.

You have a sane player that asks for a sane fragment size. While whatever
William uses seems to ask for a really small one..

		Linus

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