Paul Webster wrote: 
> Can you watch it with Wireshark or similar?

I installed wireshark but I'm having problems getting it to report what
I want. I'll keep banging on that.

I recorded and graphed the time it takes to send each buffer (16K in
this case) against the buffer-fullness of the squeezebox. The send time
jumps all over the place, starting out very fast and then staggers
between a very long time and fairly fast, presumably because the
squeezebox is frequently quenching the flow until it wants more. The x
axis is milliseconds, the y is nanoseconds.
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Smoothing 10 values on each side, a pattern of fast-to-start, then
leveling out is visible.
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The main point here is that things don't get dramatically worse at
19000ms. Which is interesting, because here's the graph of the
squeezebox's report of the buffer fullness, measured at intervals (hence
the steps):
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It looks to me as if the squeezebox is in fact reading the TCP stream
more or less steadily (once the buffer is full) - but at a certain point
is just stops adding what it reads to the squeezebox's play buffer in
any sort of timely fashion, and what it has just gets used up in a more
or less linear fashion. Before that point, the server is clearly having
no problem keeping the squeezebox fed. Once it starts stuttering, the
fullness bounces around between 0.0 and 0.04, if that. 

These graphs are fairly typical, but I've seen at least one case where
the problem, whatever it is, happens right near the start, and the
buffer gets maybe 0.07 full and then rapidly slides down to 0. When the
stuttering starts varies, in other words, but near the beginning and
towards the end seem the typical cases.

Insight welcome. This is slowly driving me mad.


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