Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-10-03 Thread Eric Johnson
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Alex Holst wrote: > This is bare 80x25 text-mode console. Yes, yes. I know. I'm a freak. Freak? I do my best work on an inexpensive VT-100 compatible I bought on eBay for $60 a few years ago. It was brand new out of the box, but put in the box something like ten years prio

Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-10-03 Thread Alex Holst
Quoting Alexandre Ratchov (a...@caoua.org): > Is this the graphic-mode console or bare 80x25 text-mode console? This is bare 80x25 text-mode console. Yes, yes. I know. I'm a freak. aucat -i foo.wav has the same stuttering when the console is used and the same random stuttering when i/o occurs.

Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-09-30 Thread opendaddy
Is this the Akai MPD18 or 24? O.D.

Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-09-30 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:19:09PM +0200, Alex Holst wrote: > > I wasn't kidding when I said this is my desktop system but I don't run X > because this chipset is shit. I am in console most of the time. I > discovered *any* output to console, even if I haven't switched to that > tty could cause a

Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-09-30 Thread Alex Holst
Quoting Alexandre Ratchov (a...@caoua.org): > do you know what causes these interrupts? is this the uaudio > device? (ex try "systat -s1 vmstat") It's never the uaudio device, in fact it's not even one of the devices listed in that view. I have uhci2 which hovers around 62. re0 hovers around 300

Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-09-30 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:28:26AM +0200, Alex Holst wrote: > I'm looking for input on solving a long-standing issue with uaudio > playback on my desktop system. (http://mongers.org/openbsd/dmesg.fit) > > When playing local FLAC files or streaming ogg/mp3 through mpd (or > cvlc), I experience stut

Re: Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-09-29 Thread Paul Kelly
On 29/09/2013 7:28 PM, Alex Holst wrote: > I'm looking for input on solving a long-standing issue with uaudio > playback on my desktop system. (http://mongers.org/openbsd/dmesg.fit) > > When playing local FLAC files or streaming ogg/mp3 through mpd (or > cvlc), I experience stuttering when system

Interrupts cause uaudio stuttering with mpd

2013-09-29 Thread Alex Holst
I'm looking for input on solving a long-standing issue with uaudio playback on my desktop system. (http://mongers.org/openbsd/dmesg.fit) When playing local FLAC files or streaming ogg/mp3 through mpd (or cvlc), I experience stuttering when system interrupts spike above 15% -- the most reliable way