On 2/23/2015 8:58 PM, Mark Copper wrote: > > > On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 5:59:36 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> Try forcing the performance governor, by default the ondemand is used >> > Thank you for responding. > > Changing the governor to "performance" has not worked. > > But it has had an interesting effect: whereas the stuttering effect > previously occurred occasionally, it now occurs immediately, as soon as the > music starts, every time I start the program. > > Also, the effect on the blue LED's is different than I described at first. > All the happens is that the LED that quickly flashes on and off freezes on > while the LED with the "heart beat" pattern continues on unchanged. > > And cpufreq-info continues to report max frequency even when the countdown > clock in the pianobar display slows to a crawl. > > Curious, huh?
What does top report? How much free memory do you have? Have you created a swap file? Strange behaviors like this can happen when you start to run out of memory and malloc() returns NULL (most programs don't really properly handle this) or the kernel's OOM killer starts randomly killing processes. -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
