Re: [LAU] xruns no matter what

On 14/09/12 21:07, david wrote:
> On 09/14/2012 07:14 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm quite a bit puzzled and so I'm hoping to find something I haven't
>> considered yet. I'm using a FireWire Saffire LE Audio Interface,
>> connected to the following PCI card: NEC Corporation uPD72873
>> [Firewarden] IEEE1394a OHCI 1.1 Link/2-port PHY Controller (rev 01).
>>
>> Software information: ffado built from svn, jack 1.9.8, kernel 3.5.3
>> PREEMT (no realtime patch) or 3.4.9-rt17 (with realtime patch), libraw
>> 2.1.0.
>>
>> No matter what I configure jack to run with, I get regular xruns every
>> few seconds whilst doing nothing. The last settings I tried were:
>>
>> Frames/Period: 4096
>> Sample Rate: 96000
>> Periods/Buffer: 3
>> (Latency: 128ms)
>>
>> And still no avail, results are like this, just after starting, without
>> actually doing anything:
>> 19:02:48.093 XRUN callback (1).
>> 19:03:03.002 XRUN callback (2).
>> 19:03:05.713 XRUN callback (3).
>> 19:03:08.257 XRUN callback (4).
>> 19:03:12.160 XRUN callback (5).
>>
>> Interrupt information:
>> 21: 0 1 1 33 1087 339542 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci
>>
>> Things I tried:
>> Basically everything suggested by the realTimeConfigQuickScan tool, like
>> changing CPU governor to "performance" or decreasing swappiness.
>> I am member of the "audio" groups, which has the following permissions,
>> as per limits.conf:
>>
>> @audio - rtprio 99
>> @audio - memlock 8388608
>> @audio - nice -5
>>
>> /dev/rtc and /dev/hpet are both read- and writeable by group "audio".
>>
>> # /etc/init.d/rtirq status
>> PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND
>> 1075 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0
>> 1407 FF 85 - 125 0.4 S irq/21-firewire
>> 1063 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/1-i8042
>> [...]
>>
>> Any advice on what I could be missing? The same system was working some
>> time ago, so I really don't know what I did wrong this time. For even
>> further information, below is the output of ffado-diag:
>>
>> many thanks,
>> Sebastian
>>
>> $ ffado-diag
>> FFADO diagnostic utility 2.999.0-Unversioned directory
>> ============================
>> (C) 2008 Pieter Palmers
>> 2009-2010 Arnold Krille
>>
>>
>> === CHECK ===
>> Base system...
>> kernel version............ 3.5.3-gentoo
>> Preempt (low latency)... True
>> RT patched.............. False
>> old 1394 stack present.... False
>> old 1394 stack loaded..... False
>> old 1394 stack active..... False
>> new 1394 stack present.... True
>> new 1394 stack loaded..... True
>> new 1394 stack active..... True
>> /dev/raw1394 node present. False
>> /dev/fw* permissions:
>> crw------- 1 root root 248, 0 Sep 14 18:14 /dev/fw0
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 248, 1 Sep 14 18:25 /dev/fw1
>> User IDs:
>> uid=1000(rose) gid=10(wheel)
>> groups=10(wheel),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk),7(lp),14(uucp),16(cron),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),81(apache),85(usb),100(users),102(davfs2),250(portage),407(crontab),1001(games),1002(plugdev),1010(kvm)
>>
>>
>> Prerequisites (dynamic at run-time)...
>> gcc ............... gcc (Gentoo 4.6.3 p1.6, pie-0.5.2) 4.6.3
>> g++ ............... g++ (Gentoo 4.6.3 p1.6, pie-0.5.2) 4.6.3
>> PyQt4 (by pyuic4) . Python User Interface Compiler 4.9.4 for Qt version
>> 4.8.2
>> jackd ............. no message buffer overruns
>> path ............ /usr/bin/jackd
>> flags ........... -L/usr/lib -ljack
>> libraw1394 ........ 2.1.0
>> flags ........... -lraw1394
>> libavc1394 ........ 0.5.4
>> flags ........... -lavc1394 -lrom1394 -lraw1394
>> libiec61883 ....... 1.1.0
>> flags ........... -liec61883 -lraw1394
>> libxml++-2.6 ...... 2.34.2
>> flags ........... -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6
>> -I/usr/lib64/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/include/libxml2
>> -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include
>> -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include
>> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -lxml++-2.6 -lxml2
>> -lglibmm-2.4 -lgobject-2.0 -lsigc-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> dbus-1 ............ 1.6.4
>> flags ........... -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include
>> -ldbus-1
>> Prerequisites (static at compile-time)...
>> gcc ............... gcc (Gentoo 4.6.3 p1.6, pie-0.5.2) 4.6.3
>> g++ ............... g++ (Gentoo 4.6.3 p1.6, pie-0.5.2) 4.6.3
>> PyQt4 (by pyuic4) . Python User Interface Compiler 4.9.4 for Qt version
>> 4.8.2
>> jackd ............. no message buffer overruns
>> path ............ /usr/bin/jackd
>> flags ........... -L/usr/lib -ljack
>> libraw1394 ........ 2.1.0
>> flags ........... -lraw1394
>> libavc1394 ........ 0.5.4
>> flags ........... -lavc1394 -lrom1394 -lraw1394
>> libiec61883 ....... 1.1.0
>> flags ........... -liec61883 -lraw1394
>> libxml++-2.6 ...... 2.34.2
>> flags ........... -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6
>> -I/usr/lib64/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/include/libxml2
>> -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include
>> -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include
>> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -lxml++-2.6 -lxml2
>> -lglibmm-2.4 -lgobject-2.0 -lsigc-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> dbus-1 ............ 1.6.4
>> flags ........... -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include
>> -ldbus-1
>> uname -a...
>> Linux semkath-desktop 3.5.3-gentoo #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 14 10:13:08
>> CEST 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor AuthenticAMD
>> GNU/Linux
>> Hardware...
>> Host controllers:
>> 04:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: NEC Corporation uPD72873
>> [Firewarden] IEEE1394a OHCI 1.1 Link/2-port PHY Controller [1033:00e7]
>> (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>> Subsystem: NEC Corporation uPD72873 [Firewarden] IEEE1394a OHCI 1.1
>> Link/2-port PHY Controller [1033:00e7]
>> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>> Latency: 32 (5000ns min, 11000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
>> Region 0: Memory at fe9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>> Capabilities: <access denied>
>> Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
>>
>> CPU info:
>> Architecture: x86_64
>> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
>> Byte Order: Little Endian
>> CPU(s): 6
>> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-5
>> Thread(s) per core: 1
>> Core(s) per socket: 6
>> Socket(s): 1
>> NUMA node(s): 1
>> Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
>> CPU family: 16
>> Model: 10
>> Stepping: 0
>> CPU MHz: 3200.000
>> BogoMIPS: 6412.71
>> Virtualization: AMD-V
>> L1d cache: 64K
>> L1i cache: 64K
>> L2 cache: 512K
>> L3 cache: 6144K
>> NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-5
>
> Try disabling network devices?
>
> On a laptop, wireless drivers typically scan regularly for connections,
> causing extended interrupt handling problems ... of course, don't know
> if your desktop machine has any kind of wireless connection built in
> (Bluetooth?) but maybe?

The desktop machine has no wireless hardware.
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Received on Sat Sep 15 16:15:02 2012