Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO

From: Matt Loschert <loschert_at_servint.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:08:02 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Munish Chopra wrote:

> On 2003-12-15 14:09 +0000, Mathew Kanner wrote:
> > On Dec 15, Munish Chopra wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not personally seeing any LOR's, but audio playback slows down under
> > > load, and every few seconds I hear popping noises during audio playback,
> > > whether under load or not.
> > >
> > > I've got a simple SB16:
> > > pcm0: <Creative CT5880-C> port 0xd800-0xd83f irq 5 at device 15.0 on
> > > pci0
> > > pcm0: <TriTech TR28602 AC97 Codec>
> >
> > 	Hello Munish,
> > 	I would realy like to help you and others.  Please describe in
> > detail the circumstances that create the problem.  Are you
> > experiencing buffer overruns or underruns?  How many devices are
> > sharing the IRQ? What are they?  What happens when you cat a raw file
> > to the device?  Does this happen with VCHANs?  Have you tried the patch
> > I posted to -current under the heading "sound patch for pop &
> > crackles"?
> > 	Please read the pcm man page for a better description on how
> > the answer the above.
> >
>
> There are two distinct problems in my case:
>
> 1) Load can be virtually zero, moderate, or heavy, either way every few
>    seconds (anywhere between 2 and 10 seconds or so) I hear snaps or
>    pops in the output. Some are pretty hard to hear, others are obvious,
>    depending on what's actually playing.
>
> 2) When untarring large gzip'ed or bzip2'ed tarballs, playback begins to
>    "slow down" to something like half the normal speed or less. I first
>    noticed this during portupgrade, when the XFree86 tarballs are
>    unpacked.

FWIW, I have been seeing the same thing (problem 2) while running xmms and
portupgrade on 4.9-STABLE.  This particular problem is definitely not
confined to -CURRENT.

- Matt

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