On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 10:38 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well i agree with the suggestion of trying a different PCI slot for > the sb live. There is so much onboard stuff sharing interrupts on > those boards that you might have problems because of that. Creative > cards are not very good at dealing with anything other than ideal > conditions from what I have gathered over the years. The manual for > the board will tell you which IRQ goes to which slot, and I guess you > want to avoid using a slot that shares with the SATA controller. It might not be interrupt related, it could be DMA starvation. This has been observed with some SATA controllers while testing the -rt patches. The symptom is that the latency traces show the machine going in "slow motion". Dominique: try the -rt kernel, enable latency tracing and post the output. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
