ALSA sound stutters/freezes

I had ALSA set up and working without any problems before today. This morning I rearranged my hard drive partitioning scheme and now it seems ALSA is messed up. Could there be a connection?
I noticed it when mpd was acting funny (a song would be shown as playing in ncmpcpp but without sound then ncmpcpp would freeze or "attempt to reconnect..." with no avail). When I play an mp3 with Audacious it plays skips/repeats the first fraction of a second (like it is stuttering). With flash videos there is just no sound. Everything seems fine with alsamixer but when I try "speaker-test -c 2", it "stutters" with some noise out of the left speaker.
Any ideas?

Quote from: Sharp on 23-February-05, 21:01:14
Hello,
Yes it can.
My logitec keyboard made my KT7A go slow when I used it.
Could you keyboard be having an effect on performance?
My keyboard does not have any effect on this. I do have a Logitech keyboard but I've also used two different keysboards, one from IBM and another from HP.
Quote from: frenchy2k1 on 24-February-05, 04:01:49
Some general advice:
 - look what services/programs are running (using a hijackthis could be nice)
 - fix the swap space (fixed drive, fixed size)
 - your IRQ 4 and 9 are described as shared, but with only one peripheral. Why?
I'm not sure why my IRQ 4 and 9 are like that. I just recently formatted after I posted those IRQ's and i'm still getting the same stuttering problem.
I've changed my swap size to a fixed number and that hasn't done anything either.

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