Oops. I did not mean to leave the outputs from 'free' in this message :( ... please ignore them. On Wednesday 14 February 2001 16:42, Michael Long wrote:

Is there a way to reserve a block of memory when starting realaudio. I have noticed that when my system is running out of free memory the audio quality goes to sh*t as the open application fight over resources.

Mike

total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 24760 236908 0 5472 6712 -/+ buffers/cache: 12576 249092 Swap: 136512 0 136512

total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 159788 101880 0 6396 73424 -/+ buffers/cache: 79968 181700 Swap: 136512 0 136512

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