From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: jerks Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:40:30 -0500 Message-ID: <1134070831.3919.28.camel@mindpipe> References: <1134063707.13439.37.camel@snuk.slsware.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net (viper.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.4]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id 20F5218D for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:39:16 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <1134063707.13439.37.camel@snuk.slsware.lan> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Glenn English Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 10:41 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > I'm trying to make a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) out of a SUN W2100z > (dual AMD64). > > Every few seconds, at seemingly random times, everything freezes for > ~50ms. Even the mouse. Sometimes. Reliable at the first card moved in > Aisle Riot Solitaire and when Jack is running. Often when I'm typing > email (chars don't get from the keyboard to the screen). > > I know that's not much of a description, but I don't know where to start > looking for this. I'm assuming interrupts are being disabled entirely > momentarily. My background says it's time for a bus monitor, but I don't > have one handy. > > This happens with a 2.6 kernel from the current updated Sarge or a 2.4 > from DeMuDi 1.2.1 distro. > > Anybody have any idea how to begin tracing this down? Or maybe a better > explanation of what's going on? > Try the -rt kernel and enable latency tracing ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click