2010/6/21 David Dillow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:42 +0200, Hans Schou wrote: >> cmdline is now: >> arecord -B 250000 -F 125000 -c 1 -r 44100 -f S16 -M -D hw:0,0 -v arec.wav > This really makes me think the system just cannot keep up. Can you post > the initial output to verify that it is getting two periods per buffer, > please? Then I have to run it again. I do not have it on the screen anymore. I will do that after the test I'm running now - as mentioned before. I have turned on my signal generator with 400Hz. I will give it a try with listen to it, to hear any clicks when the overrun occur. > Also, does it do the same without the -M ? And you may wish to try > longer and shorter periods to see if you get so many overruns. > Also, what storage are you using? Does it support DMA? PIO modes can be > very slow... On a daily basis I use USB flash memory stick and have done this more than a year but always less than 42 min. Right now I'm using old 4GB external hard disk connected through USB. /hans _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel