[CentOS] music stops..................

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:57 -0400, Manuel E. Chavez Manzano wrote:
> Thanks 
> then I have ti assume that the problem is the processor, I mean that
> it's not enought.
> thanks a lot
> see you
> 
> El jue, 13-09-2007 a las 20:41 -0700, Craig White escribió:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:12 -0400, Manuel E. Chavez Manzano wrote:
> > > I mean when i do it locally, and even from command line, and I always do
> > > it as a user, and it isn't shows any error, 
> > > and example
> > > when I run yum update
> > > when yum starts downloading headers, mplayer stop for a secund and start
> > > again, and that happens averytime yum start downloading a header, and
> > > when download a packeage, but when the download is on curse mplayer
> > > plays normally
> > > Do you understad what I mean ????
> > > sorry but I'm not very good writing, I speak spanish
> > > 
> > > 
> > > El jue, 13-09-2007 a las 19:52 -0700, Craig White escribió:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 22:43 -0400, Manuel E. Chavez Manzano wrote:
> > > > > I have installed CentOS 5 with mplayer -1.0-0.34. from de dag's
> > > > > repos,everythings going well while I'm just listening music ando doing
> > > > > any easy job, but when I run yum the mplayer stops for a while and start
> > > > > again, the sames happens with xmms.
> > > > > I have a celeron 2.9ghz and 256mb ram  
> > > > > I want to know why is this happening ? 
> > > > ----
> > > > hurry up and grab a chair...
> > > > 
> > > > try launching xmms/mplayer (as user) from command line instead of
> > > > clicking because starting from a command line might give some useful
> > > > information in error out.
> > > > 
> > > > I find that if I am watching video or listening to audio via the
> > > > Internet, a stoppage generally means that it lost contact with the
> > > > streaming server
> > > > 
> > ----
> > yum update is not an easy job...it takes a lot of processing power and
> > memory. You don't have that much memory and the Celeron is only OK as a
> > processor
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256 MB RAM is suggested minimum and likely to cause your machine to use
swap more and interruptions in streaming process is likely while system
is swapping memory to/from hard disk

Craig