Re: [ecasound] double buffer and kernel realtime

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Pedro Antonio Fructuoso Merino wrote:

>> user is root, when i use the double buffer the computer is crash. I had tryed
> This sounds like a bug, and one related to SCHED_FIFO (real-time) scheduling mode. But the
> Can`t you reproduce the problem? I use -z:db,661500 , try it. With -o rtnull the problem persists. I
> could see that computer block only happen when send commad "stop" (i didn`t test with cs-disconnect
> because i don`t want restart de computer... again).

Ok, now I could reproduce the problem. Seems like it is related to really
large db buffersize, and stopping the disk i/o threads (that's the hang
happens when the processing is stopped and with explicit "stop" and
"cs-disconnect" commands).

While waiting for the fix, add -r:-1 to the command-line to avoid the
hangs.

> I could see, when i didn`t use a big buffer, that when send stop the
> computer blocks for 2-5 seconds. So is possible that it (ecasound, alsa,
> kernel, mpg321...) go into an infinite bucle.

Yes, and when run with SCHED_FIFO, hanging in system calls
(communication with mpg321 and sound device drivers) or inter-thread
synchronization (ecasound internal bugs) will result in system free.
Add -r:-1 to avoid SCHED_FIFO in all cases (of course, this increases
the risk of buffer underruns/overruns, but still better than a frozen
system).

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