From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Guthrie Subject: Re: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 349696 bytes (1821 ms). Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:41:56 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1261191766.18070.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4f3252890912191547x1996cf7es190e8dac71dacaae@mail.gmail.com> <1261352484.18070.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1261869811.30924.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4f3252890912261739x372fb678yde8a8e0edb93fe6e@mail.gmail.com> <1261947691.24632.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4f3252890912272114t6dcfa58bj4d5b5e6e606c5004@mail.gmail.com> <1262058553.20808.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4f3252890912292307qc3c4b29m98c7d6e4c8fd6a7d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839EE1037FF for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:42:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NQJQ1-0002wL-MC for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:42:17 +0100 Received: from cpc1-sgyl30-2-0-cust258.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com ([94.173.13.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:42:17 +0100 Received: from gmane by cpc1-sgyl30-2-0-cust258.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:42:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4f3252890912292307qc3c4b29m98c7d6e4c8fd6a7d@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 'Twas brillig, and Raymond Yau at 30/12/09 07:07 did gyre and gimble: > Why do PA server try to open an non-existing device iec958 so many times ? It has to try and open the device several times to probe for available profiles. This is only done at startup and then cached for the duration of the run in the form of a list of available profiles. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]