Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] can't get any dropouts?
From: Stefan Nitschke (nitschke_AT_fzi.de)
Date: pe elo 13 1999 - 18:07:10 EDT
> Adam Zygmunt discourseth:
> >
> > > If you want to generate dropouts in RTSynth, try running top at the
> > > same time. You'll also find out RTSynth's processor load. :) You can
> > > also try creating a 200M file (head -c 200000000 /dev/zero >tmpfile)
> > > while RTSynth is running. Deleting the file is probably even more
> > > likely to cause dropouts.
> >
> > Not to be snotty, but this reminds me of the old joke, "Doctor, it hurts
> > when I do this." "So don't do that!"
>
> Well, the point of such experiments is to realize that even though you
> haven't heard any dropouts yet, it's because you've been lucky. Do
> you want to count on continuing to be lucky (going into single-user
> mode helps), or do you want reliability and convenience?
>
> Eric
>
I was offline for some days...
Seems that i am a lucky man. I have scsi drives and no agp graphic card
and can run a rt application together with wmmon,wmtime,... and some
other programs without any problems. I also tried running RTsynth
and several gcc's compiling some stuff. This results in a system load
of over 6 and still have no audio dropouts.
I have not yet tested large files, no space on my drives to do some
harddsic recording. Do profesionals use a PC for harddisk recording??
On the other hand: Linux is not a RT-multimedia system so I never
tried to run a software synth together with e.g. a video streamer
and did never expect that this will work... if Linux will become
a real RT-system some day. ..
- Stefan
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