From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: ALSA hangs under load Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:53:10 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <1023918629.1921.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3D3665EF.314AAFB7@multitech.co.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D3665EF.314AAFB7@multitech.co.in> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Shaju Abraham Cc: perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:23:35 +0530, Shaju Abraham wrote: > > Hi all, > We usedALSA driver version( 0.5.12a) on i810 motherboard, Red Hat > 7.1 kernel 2.4.4. > > We played a mp3 song using mpg123. when the song was being played, we opened > about 20 to 25 konsole windows and netscape navigators, ALSA stopped playing > the song. After all windows were opened by linux, we checked the dmesg and > found that pcm_lib.c debug msg ---- DMA or IRQ problem? ---- being > repeated. cat /proc/interrupts repeatedly used shows that the number of ICH > interrupts does not increase at all. Meaning ICH interrupts are no longer > being received at all. Why does this happen? Is it a bug in ALSA? it might be... anyway version 0.5.x is obsolete now. we won't developt it (although we accept bug-fix patches, of course). please try version 0.9.0, preferrably cvs version. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf