...whoa. Playing MIDI files with TiMidity sure does gobble up CPU.

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17908 christin 15 0 24404 16m 1940 S 18.0 3.9 2:27.63 timidity

I can see that massively choking on a machine with less power to spare, heh. And laptop batteries. <wince> A few points against listening to old game midis while doing other things...