Music skips when computer is under high strain

[Jeb E.]

When I am listening to music at the same time as working with GIMP editing large images, my music begins to skip around, and sometimes repeat the same phrase over and over again until I have to pause my music. Even then, it takes banshee around 5 seconds to respond. Also, my mouse and keyboard actions skip around during high CPU and Memory usage, as well. I never once had this problem when running Ubuntu 11.04, but ever since I installed 11.10, this problem began.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

still, not unity's fauly afaict

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Under high CPU or memory strain? If it's memory strain, it could be that disk i/o slows down, as the disk cache is flushed out to make way for application memory (by GIMP), and Banshee needs to read the audio file at a fixed rate to play it back.