From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 5 10:35:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FF237B503; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjsabatier@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f15IbUY86814; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:37:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cjsabatier) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:37:30 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 4.2-STABLE (Feb 4 2000): pcm hiccups Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Feb-01 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Just cvsupped yesterday (Feb 4), and I'm noticing some flaws in the pcm > driver's performance compared to a previous -stable. > > The driver is using more CPU, for one thing, average 3% vs. 1% before. Sorry, should have mentioned that these figures are from gqmpeg (using mpg123). > I'm also hearing some "hiccups", brief hesitations, as well as some > "scratches" (white noise) of about 1 sec. duration. Forgot to mention earlier that I'm also seeing the occasional "pcm0: hwptr went backwards" message. > This is on an Athlon 1 GHz machine, BTW. -- Conrad Sabatier cjsabatier@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message