On Saturday 16 January 2010 19:17:18 Thomas Hummel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not really sure what the right list is since I cannot isolate the part > of > the system which cause the problem : > > I could use a little help on a weird sound issue I'm struggling with : > > 1. Description : > ------------------------ > > When playing audio files, the sound has from few to many > "micro-interrupts" > (less than 1/4 of a second), randomly but frequently (so this is not hard > to > reproduce). This seem to occur : > > . with any file (I can pick a random audio file to experience it) > . with either mp3 or flaac encoded files > . with mplayer (from the ports collection or hand compiled from svn), > either with oss or sdl audio output (although sdl seems to have less > "interrupts") > . with vlc > > but > > . not with ffplay > . apparently not with xine > . apparently not with amarok
Amarok uses xine. All of the above ultimately use OSS to output the sound. > > -> so I doubt this may be a harware or a driver issue. > > and on a almost idle 4GB RAM machine running only KDE-4 and firefox-3 > > no hints shows in /var/log/messages > > 2. Config : > ------------ > > I'm running : > > . 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD amd64 > > . full zfs (no ufs) (files are on a "slow" disk pool (5400 rpm) but > moving them to the "fast" system disk (7200 rpm) doesn't change anything > > . on a (bios up to date) P5Q3 ASUS motherboard > > . with snd_hda sound driver [snip] Try increasing the hw.snd.latency sysctl: hw.snd.latency Configure the buffering latency. Only affects applications that do not explicitly request blocksize / fragments. This tunable provides finer granularity than the hw.snd.latency_profile tun- able. Possible values range between 0 (lowest latency) and 10 (highest latency). Just thinking out loud here, but maybe you have some non-standard HZ configured or powerd configured to clock the CPU back by an extreme amount, both could theoretically cause buffer underruns. - Pieter _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"