My apologies this does not directly relate to development of OSS.

Ubuntu 6.10 - Linux/i686 2.6.25 - OSS 4.0 (b1015/200807100725) (0x00040003) GPL

and 

Ubuntu 8.04 - Linux/i686 2.6.24-16-generic - OSS 4.1 (mercurial as of today)


With OSS 4.0 and vmix simply open()'ing /dev/dsp for one second generates 3000 
hdaudio0 interrupts (/proc/interrupts), while with OSS 4.1 with no vmix this 
drops to 400 oss_hdaudio0 interrupts.

The following config parameters seem to have no effect.

/usr/lib/oss/conf/osscore.conf

max_intrate=100
src_quality=1

Please could someone explain this high interrupt rate and how to reduce it, 
preferably with OSS 4.0, it's interfering with CPU power saving.

thanks.



##### OSS 4.0

Version info: OSS 4.0 (b1015/200807100725) (0x00040003) GPL
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.25 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 10 08:04:16 BST 2008
((none))

Number of audio devices:        4
Number of audio engines:        12
Number of mixer devices:        1


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: vmix0 OSS transparent virtual mixer
 2: hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=188186 (188187)
    HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
    Vendor ID    0x8086284b
    Subvendor ID 0x80862654
     Codec  0: ALC268 (0x10ec0268/0x10ec0268)
     Codec  1: Unknown (0x10573055)


Mixer devices
 0: High Definition Audio ALC268 (Mixer 0 of device object 2)

Audio devices
HD Audio speaker                  /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0  (device index 0)
HD Audio headphone                /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm1  (device index 1)
High Definition Audio rec1        /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin0  (device index 2)
High Definition Audio rec2        /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin1  (device index 3)



##### OSS 4.1

Version info: OSS 4.1 (b rc1/200809011546) (0x00040090) 
Hg revision: changeset: 429:f399673b31ec, tag: tip, date: Mon Sep 01 17:10:10 
2008 +0300, summary: Added BeOS/Haiku related files to OSS
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008

Number of audio devices:        4
Number of audio engines:        8
Number of mixer devices:        1


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: oss_hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=842 (129567)
    HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
    Vendor ID    0x8086284b
    Subvendor ID 0x80862654
     Codec  0: ALC268 (0x10ec0268/0x10ec0268)
     Codec  1: Unknown (0x10573055)
 2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services


Mixer devices
 0: High Definition Audio ALC268 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)

Audio devices
HD Audio play speaker             /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0  (device index 0)
HD Audio play headphone           /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1  (device index 1)
HD Audio rec select               /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0  (device index 2)
HD Audio rec select               /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1  (device index 3)


      
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