[solved]using the browser interrupts sound play back

[wyrdoak]

I have started noting that sometimes when I use the browser I need to restart my media player when playing sound files.
my best guess it the problem my be that usb3 and the WiFi 'ath9k' is using the same io17. I only have a limited number of USB ports to connect a external hard drive.

Could this be the cause? before I go off on a goose chase or could is be something else?

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           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:     984613     984096   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:          4          4   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:         67         86   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:      13933      14002   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:         73         61   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 16:      64860      64551   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
 17:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3, ath9k
 18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 19:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5
 42:      23431      23356   PCI-MSI-edge      ahci
 43:     482005     481848   PCI-MSI-edge      i915
 44:      18735      18589   PCI-MSI-edge      hda_intel
 45:      18554      18659   PCI-MSI-edge      eth1
NMI:       2511       2511   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:    1752945    1764638   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:       2511       2511   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          0          0   IRQ work interrupts
RES:    1277709    1276643   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:       6218       4266   Function call interrupts
TLB:      12266      11689   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:         24         24   Machine check polls
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

[wyrdoak]

Looks like I might just be over using the Atom CPU. I copied an album to the Internel HDD from the External HDD and played it. Pulled up the browser, player seems to be working better until I go to a flash intensive site then when the system load gets over 2.47 the player stops.

There is never a silver bullet for a problem, but right now from what I can see, my problem looks like a combo of using the same IO and a system load problem?

[wyrdoak]

found and upgraded to Kernel 3.0.3

BTW: had to install this to make my WiFi work http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... less-crda/ after uninstalling the crda that was installed.