BUG: ALSA crashes if aplay is running to often at the same time

BUG: ALSA crashes if aplay is running to often at the same time

[florian kriener]

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Hello,

I experienced a problem with ALSA when someone send me a lot of IM's
per GAIM with little time between them. GAIM launches aplay and plays
this nice "new message" sound. And when called this many times ALSA
crashes, i.e. all programs using sound output freeze, ps aux too and
i have to reboot using the sysrq key.

My sound-card is a Sound Blaster Live Platinum.

Sincerely Yours,
Florian.

BTW: If I can help somehow, please ask.

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Re: BUG: ALSA crashes if aplay is running to often at the same time

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:08:41 +0200,
florian kriener wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I experienced a problem with ALSA when someone send me a lot of IM's
> per GAIM with little time between them. GAIM launches aplay and plays
> this nice "new message" sound. And when called this many times ALSA
> crashes, i.e. all programs using sound output freeze, ps aux too and
> i have to reboot using the sysrq key.
> 
> My sound-card is a Sound Blaster Live Platinum.

Which version of ALSA?


Takashi


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Re: BUG: ALSA crashes if aplay is running to often at the same time

[Alien]

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Op zaterdag 1 oktober 2005 12:08, schreef florian kriener:
> Hello,
>
> I experienced a problem with ALSA when someone send me a lot of IM's
> per GAIM with little time between them. GAIM launches aplay and plays
> this nice "new message" sound. And when called this many times ALSA
> crashes, i.e. all programs using sound output freeze, ps aux too and
> i have to reboot using the sysrq key.
>
> My sound-card is a Sound Blaster Live Platinum.
>
> Sincerely Yours,
> Florian.
>
> BTW: If I can help somehow, please ask.

WTF!!!

this describes EXACTLY my problem...

I always thought, it was the snd-au88x0 card, but i have an emu10k1 as well...

I've had this with 1.0.8 at least...

didn't have this issue anymore, (using alsa-cvs now, for some time)

but it's exactly this:

alsa froze, all sound froze, all appl using sound froze...

I couldn't kill apps with killall or anything

doing ps aux, hung my console

issuing a reboot failed at the first kill command

sometimes ps aux would give me some lines, and then stop suddenly, (always the 
same lines).

love to know if your problem is the same as mine...

try the very latest version (and alsa-cvs), if you don't have it anymore, i'll 
be at ease...

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