[vorbis] minimum processor/ram follow up

[Rik Hemsley]

#if fungus
> Becker, Rob wrote:
> > I'm hoping to use an old laptop as an ogg vorbis player in my car.
> > If I have a Pentium 100 w/ 40 megs of RAM running linux with a
> >
>  > console based ogg vorbis player will I be likely to run into
>  > problems with performance?
>
> Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I think you'll be
> _right_ on the limit of the CPU power.

A suggestion to add: Use the low-latency patch for the kernel, make the player 
suid and use sched_setscheduler with SCHED_FIFO.

Cheers,
Rik

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