Re: [Alsa-user] aplay underrun length

2017-11-01 Thread Samuele Carcagno
Hi Clemens, thank you very much for all the advice Is some other process blocking the CPU or disk I/O? aplay playback is initiated by a GUI application on a dedicated thread. This application is running during playback in a KDE desktop, but apart from this the PC (a quad-core Xeon E5-1607 v

Re: [Alsa-user] aplay underrun length

2017-11-01 Thread Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user
Samuele Carcagno wrote: > I often get underruns Is some other process blocking the CPU or disk I/O? Try increasing the period size. > a single underrun lasting about 122-ms would be negligible for my > experiment Please note that the stream is stopped, and restarted later. Can you actually liv

[Alsa-user] aplay underrun length

2017-11-01 Thread Samuele Carcagno
Hi, I'm using aplay to play 70-seconds long WAV files for an auditory experiment. I'm keeping a log of stderr and I noticed that I often get underruns, for example: underrun!!! (at least 121.945 ms long) a single underrun lasting about 122-ms would be negligible for my experiment, while