Sound skips

[Giuliano Pochini]

Iain Sandoe wrote:
>
> > When I play music under high load the sound has a lot of
> > short interruptions. It seems not to be related with I/O. I tried
> > Alsaplayer
>
> this is with Takashi Iwai's driver (it's the only one AFAIK)
>
[...]
>
> which OSS driver are you using?
> dmasound?

Yes.

> with or without my patches ?

Plain 2.4.2. I'm d/l-ing your patches now. I'll let you know.

> > I don't know what causes that (ints kept disabled too much time ?)
> > but if someone has a patch to try I'me here.
>
> there are a variety of things that can block for between 16 & 300 ms (not
> necessarily IRQs).
>
> what size fragments are you using?

2K. I have to rise it to 8KB to work fine. My friend with the G4 still have
very few interruptions even with 8KB.

Bye.

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