Something I noticed about Mint which isnt great

[phill1978]

Hi,
love mint

however i noticed something across released KDE,XFCE etc..

If you load your HDD up with activity (for example download a Steam game or move a large file from one disc to another) The audio pauses and the system freezes for a second ?

Why is this? windows doesnt do this? I have a decent spec PC with 4GB RAM & 6 cores @ near 4.0 ghz. I can browse the web listening to some audio and if there is some big transfer activity it pauses things? So Is there a priority thing going on? In windows audio is the last thing to get disrupted, even the desktop can lock up totally but unless its a bluescreen it keeps going! this is how it should be, audio should not stammer under CPU load.. ever.. period

imagine if you used your linux laptop for audio DJing (MAC's are used a lot for this) your speakers would be crackling and your customers leaving.

any ideas? perhaps its just a setting. I have two soundcards in my PC an aftermarket one and the internal realtek

thanks

[kurotsugi]

interesting...I've never heard theese issue before. could you give us the result of 'inxi -Fxr'? since the bug is related with HDD activity the problem might related with I/O management, updating the kernel might be a good thing to try. as far as I know mint14 indeed have some issue related with copying file in HDD which make the process takes a long time. however, I never heard it affect the audio and these issue have been resolved on the newest kernel update