> From: Andreas Raab [mailto:Andreas.Raab at gmx.de] 
> The problem is simple: WinNT scheduling sucks.  I'm giving 
> the main Squeak thread a minimal priority boost since it 
> turns out that this does _wonders_ for sound generation and 
> some other real-time activities.
> 
> The fix is going to be a) allow for completely disabling the 
> priority boost and/or b) make it dependent on Squeak being 
> the active app.

You might also like to look at the scheduler-frobbing stuff at
http://www.sysinternals.com - some of the problems stems from the fact that
9x, NT Workstation and NT Server also have different behaviours, so knowing
*which* Windows OS you're running is a distinct advantage if you're going to
report a scheduling problem.  NT Workstation claws time back from
high-priority threads to give to lower-priority threads much more readily
than NT Server, for example.

		- Peter