From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 13:08:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5414116A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from schnell.net (schnell.net [209.50.225.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B359143D31 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:08:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from loschert@servint.com) Received: from schnell.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by schnell.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBFL83OZ045304; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:08:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from loschert@servint.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by schnell.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id hBFL82n3045301; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:08:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from loschert@servint.com) X-Authentication-Warning: schnell.net: matt owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:08:02 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Loschert X-X-Sender: matt@schnell.net To: Munish Chopra In-Reply-To: <20031215202543.GB653@opiate.soulwax.net> Message-ID: <20031215160507.R45239@schnell.net> References: <200312151501.hBFF1Abp088978@fledge.watson.org> <20031215180827.GA653@opiate.soulwax.net> <20031215202543.GB653@opiate.soulwax.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:08:05 -0000 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: port 0xd800-0xd83f irq 5 at device 15.0 on > > > pci0 > > > pcm0: > > > > 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 -- Matt Loschert - Software Engineer | email: loschert@servint.com | ServInt Internet Services | web: http://www.servint.net/ | McLean, Virginia USA | phone: (703) 847-1381 |