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SubjectRe: 2.6.15-rt2 - repeatable xrun - no good data in trace
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 1/8/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
>>>> I did run across a way that I can create a repeatable xrun on my
>>>>AMD64 machine by burning a CD in k3b while Jack is running.
>>>>Unfortunately I do not see any good trace data in dmesg when I do it.
>>>Maybe your cdrecord is running with realtime priority higher than Jack?
>>>Michal
>>cdrecord does run with SCHED_RR/99 when started with proper privileges.
>>
> Ah, then it's likely that this isn't a real problem and it would be
> expected to cause an xrun?

By running cdrecord with a higher priority than Jack, you're telling the
system that burning the CD is more important than not getting xruns in Jack.

> Anyway, it seems strange that the trace doesn't show anything. I
> suppose that's because cdrecord just grabs a lot of time at a higher
> priority than Jack and Jack ends up not getting serivces at all for
> 5-10mS?

I guess that's exactly what's happening.

> OK, back to the drawing board about debugging my problems!

Try running cdrecord as a normal user and don't give it SUID root.

Michal
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