> (please don't top-post) > Extremely sorry for that . will take care reagarding this from now on . > If, when read() is called, there is enough data in the buffer, it will > return that data and return immediately. Otherwise, it will wait for > the hardware to reach the next period boundary (in OSS: fragment > boundary) and try again. > > If you want to have shorter waits, use lower fragment sizes. yes , setting of lower fragment size is my requirement at the moment in OSS application . i tried to use SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT ioctl to set lower fragment size . but audio driver uses default fragment size only and not the fragment size desired by application . Is it possible to change fragment size in kernel space ? Thanx & Regards Amit Nagal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user