Comment 11 for bug 666052

The underlying problem is still there in that one long IO read can
still cause the total output to glitch. I think it has been fixed for
most cases, though, through a handful of optimizations for people with
sufficiently fast computers.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Owen Williams <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is this bug fixed with the new mmap code?  It's been a long time since
> I've heard stuttering on track loads.
>
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> Title:
>  Momentary freeze (audio glitch/silence) during disk IO
>
> Status in Mixxx:
>  Confirmed
> Status in Mixxx 1.8 series:
>  Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
>  When playing a newly-analyzed track, Mixxx freezes for a split second
>  when the computer reads from disk (glitches happen while the external
>  drive shows activity). Noticed it on FLAC files.
>
>  Subsequent loads of an analyzed track don't show this behavior.
>
>  Happens on Athlon64 2GHz, 1.25GB RAM, Debian squeeze AMD64
>  Hard disk is external mirrored (hardware RAID,) XFS file system, connected via Firewire 400 (through a PCMCIA card with TI chipset)
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