Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:57:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Mike <> | Subject | Re: sound & hdd = the usual lowlatency problems |
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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > Your problem is very likely not hardware related. > > The problem lies in the kernel which,while the disk is under stress, does not > > run your sound-app for a time which is bigger than your audio buffer, > > and therefore the sound skips. > > Why does everyone insist on it's skipping?!?! It's dragging. Remember > 8track tapes?!?! > Not wanting to contradict you, but are you completely sure that the dragging you are hearing isn't actually a mild form of skipping? ie if it skips very slightly at regular intervals, this could sound like dragging?
> I'm sure it's hardware related because that machine has never done this when ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > <snip>
> There's nothing wrong with the hardware itself. When it ran 2.0.3x I never ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Um? I'm slightly confused here. What excatly do you think is causing the problem?
> had a problem except when there was network activity. The problem went away > when I got a PCI sound card. I kept the old sb16 for other things (lots of > programs didn't like the es1370 driver and the sb16 worked just fine). The > 16 would drag, but not the pci card. Now, the machine was upgraded and the > old parts upgraded another machine. I threw a sb card in it so that I could > play deathmatch games between me and friends with sound. > > But the bottom line is, it's not skipping period. It drags just like the > old 8tracks. When the machine gets taken down (which may not be for a long > time, it's on a ups and I don't reboot machines unless I do upgrades, this > is a nonissue for the machine) > So the sb16 drags under network activity on 2.0.3x on one machine and under heavy disk load on 2.2.x on another machine, yes?
It does sound like a resource conflict to me, but I assume you've checked that. Does the kernel know about both of the sb's dma channels?
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