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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Lars Heineken <Lars.Heineken@gmx.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Opening dev/dsp takes very long
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:35:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hr7vuiej6.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40536881.4030903@gmx.de>

At Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:01:05 +0100,
Lars Heineken wrote:
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> Hi !
> 
> I switched from 2.4 to 2.6 a few days ago and noticed this strange
> problem. Whatever program uses OSS-emulation takes 1-3 seconds to open
> /dev/dsp and start playing sound. It seems that this has something to do
> with the preemptive kernel option, because I experienced the same when I
> tried a 2.4 kernel with the preemptive patch.
> I thought that having a prememtive kernel would reduce delays in general
> ~ and not increase them dramatically.
> How can I be of help to find and locate this problem ?

try strace with -r option and check which call takes too long time.


Takashi


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-15 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-13 20:01 Opening dev/dsp takes very long Lars Heineken
2004-03-13 20:24 ` Additional info: " Lars Heineken
2004-03-15 10:35 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2004-03-15 20:22   ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-16  8:19     ` Clemens Ladisch
2004-03-16  8:49       ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-16 19:04         ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-19 12:29         ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-19 21:58           ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-19 23:56             ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-03-20  8:20               ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-20 13:24                 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-20 16:09                   ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-20 16:11                     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-20 16:59                       ` Lars Heineken
2004-03-20 17:13                   ` Tommi Sakari Uimonen
2004-03-20 17:12                     ` Jaroslav Kysela

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