On 19 Sep 2002, Francesco Rossi wrote:
> I believe it may sound weird, but I have successfully ran 3 cards
> recording at 32.000 Hz each stereo, 16 bits. I left it running for
> 24hours to check if it was just luck and it never crashed!
>
> The configuration I have used with three cards sums up to 384K per
> second running on the PCI bus.
>
> Now my test continues and I have added another two cards, reaching the
> limit of my slots, 5 cards.
>
> When I start the arecord on all of them, it doesn't crash, but it's
> recording at 8000 Hz 8bits mono by default.
>
> I then tried running arecord at 16000 Hz, stereo, 16 bits, and it
> crashed when I started the 5th card.
>
> What's weird is that with this configuration on the bus we should have
> only 320k per second.
>
> It appears to me that it is crashing when I am increasing the summed
> sample rate. But then it doesn't make sense because 320k is less than
> 384k.
>
> Do you have any idea?
Note that ESS Solo1 hardware is not very good. We have several workarounds
in our driver to fix the wrong hardware behaviour. Perhaps, it could have
more design problems so it eats more bus bandwidth than necessary. Try
another hardware.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
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