From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 22 16:29:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E6837B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.mybox.zip ([207.214.149.243]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GDR00MREFXH1S@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by zippy.mybox.zip (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FE811896; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:39 -0700 From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: What's causing troubles with pcm? In-reply-to: <20010522161347.A54429@myhakas.matti.ee>; from vallo@matti.ee on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:13:47PM +0200 To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: current@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010522162938.A43750@zippy.mybox.zip> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20010522161347.A54429@myhakas.matti.ee> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > Playing mp3's with mpg123 has been quite satistfactory until now. > Today I've discovered that every execution of sync(8) distorts > music by means of "stretching" musical phrase. The obvious answer would be to not run sync(8) :^) Likely, what you're seeing is the combo of the pcm driver being pretty sensitive to other interrupt activity and the ata driver turning off write caching by default. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message