From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Remove xrun debugging? Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:53:55 -0400 Message-ID: <1145825635.31507.19.camel@mindpipe> References: <1145767405.21377.20.camel@mindpipe> <20060423174534.1dd2cb44@mango.fruits> <1145809115.21377.34.camel@mindpipe> <20060423205656.GA3146@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060423205656.GA3146@localhost.localdomain> 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: John Rigg Cc: Florian Schmidt , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 21:56 +0100, John Rigg wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:18:34PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:45 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:43:24 -0400 > > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > > Can the xrun debug feature of ALSA please be removed? It was obsoleted > > > > long ago by the latency tracing feature of the -rt kernel, and has not > > > > been used to find a bug since 2004. At this point it's just confusing > > > > to users. > > > > > > It still might prove useful for non -rt users. I don't know exactly how > > > useful, but maybe it's really a documentation bug. Put a note in the > > > helpfile that much finer debugging can be done with the -rt kernels. > > > > I don't think it's useful at all - any bugs that it could have found > > were fixed long ago. I have not seen useful output from it in a year > > and a half. > > Not everyone can use the -rt kernel. Last time I tried it there were still > issues with x86_64 SMP (multiple single CPUs, not dual chip). Admittedly > this was a couple of months ago, but on my dual Opteron I'm still running > vanilla 2.6.14.4. The latency tracer is available as a separate patch against the mainline kernel. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642