From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benno Senoner Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 23:03:46 +0000 Subject: Re: sndconfig.. and something chewing up resources Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org You may be right, the problem is that esd uses too small buffers and doesn't run SCHED_FIFO therefore high CUP/disk load can cause this kind of drouputs. ( try to grep for esd while you are playing sound, to see if it is running) Anyway a kernel recompile won't help because it's not the kernel the source of the problem. (sndconfig just insmods the audio drivers, nothing magic :-) ) The problem is very probably the soundserver. What kind of audio app are you running ? As far I can tell you I run RH 6.2 and KDE here, and only mpg123 uses esd as default. xmms does direct /dev/dsp output except if you spefify esd in the settings. Plus try to tune your IDE harddisk with hdparm -d 1 -c 1 -u 1 /dev/hda (except if it's a crappy old IDE disk) it helps alot, especially when doing disk I/O. Benno. On Wed, 03 May 2000, Josh Estelle wrote: > I recently reinstalled my whole system, using RedHat 6.2. > > In past installs I have always recompiled my kernel to gain sound card > support for my Crystal Audio card. This time I had heard about this > until 'sndconfig' that came with RedHat so I decided to try it. It > worked slickly and now I've got sound. But it appears to be doing sound > using some daemons of sorts, ksoundaemon, esd?, kaudio, something like > those... and it seems when I run anythign else that is at all processor > intensive my sound playback gets coppy or drops out and does funny > stuff. I figure I'm just going to recompile my kernel and do it the old > way and see if the problem persists. Anyone have any ideas on what's > going on? > > My machine is a Dell Optiplex, 400mhz, 128MB ram.. > > Josh > > > -- > > "You can be my Yoko Ono... You can follow me wherever I go..." > > - Barenaked Ladies