[linux-audio-user] Skipping audio output?

Hello, When I'm running an audio app like XMMS to play music, the sound skips somewhat frequently (maybe 5 times in the course of an album). That's with no load on the system, and nothing using the processor heavily. However if I do something that peaks the CPU (like dragging a window around really fast), this also causes the sound to skip immediately. I recently installed jack and ardour and mean to install the low-latency kernel patches when I get around to it; they are mentioned here: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/faq.php3 But I'm wondering, is this XMMS audio-skipping problem related to that too? Will intalling the low-latency patches help with that? Thanks, Anthony http://nodivisions.com/