Kaffeine playback jerky

[Billie Walsh]

Knapp wrote:
> How much ram do you have? How much does the computer show is being
> used? Maybe one is not working or failed without complaint.
I have two gigs of ram. According to System guard I have 1.9 used and 55 
meg free. Swap shows 39 k used and 3.2 gig free. To me that seems about 
normal.Right now I have six windows open counting this compose window. 
Use all the ram first then swap if necessary. Processor [ Intel dual 
core 3.2 GHz ] load idling seems to run about 12 percent.

Finally found a breakdown on the color scheme. Application [ running 
apps ] memory seems to be  running about 500 meg, buffered memory about 
100 meg, and cached memory using the rest of it.

Playing a DVD raises the processor usage to nearly 100%. Application 
memory doesn't change but the buffered memory starts a constant upward 
slant. Swap doesn't change.  After a while buffered memory levels off at 
about 1 gig and cached drops to just under 1.5 gig [ numbers are in 
total memory used ]. Turning off the Kafeine instantly drops memory 
usage to 579K and processor usage back to the idle percent.

Here's a thought. This is a 64 bit machine but running 32 bit version of 
8.04. My laptop is a 64 bit processor with 64 bit 8.04 and works fine.
Could the 32 bit version not be using the whole processor?
Would a change to 64 bit 8.04 help?

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