Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:54:48 -0600 From: Travis Poppe <tlp@LiquidX.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mild sound distortion with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Message-ID: <20041021145448.07c993d3@maya.liquidx.org> In-Reply-To: <20041021102205.C37069@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20041019111518.1f6a76a4@maya.liquidx.org> <20041021102205.C37069@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Travis Poppe wrote: > > > I've recently noticed a mild sound distortion in XMMS and other > > applications that output sound. I'm not sure when I started noticing > > this, but I don't believe it has always been present in the 5.x > > branch(and if it has, I haven't noticed it up until a month or two > > ago). > > Problems with sound disruptions can usually be traced to running with > WITNESS and/or INVARIANTS compiled into your kernel. These debugging > options cause enough interrupt latency to cause sound problems. Even > setting the sysctl debug.witness_watch=0 (I guess its > debug.witness.watch=0 now) will usually clear the issue right away, or > reduce the disruptions significantly (for that boot only). I don't have these debugging options compiled into my kernel, so it must be something else. -Travis Poppe
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