On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 13:22 -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering if there is any reason why PulseAudio couldn't be > changed to use default-fragments = 8 as the default. > > The reason why I ask is that Wine/alsa is a total mess with > default-fragments = 4. I've changed three different machines to > default-fragments = 8 and wine 1.3.37/alsa works just fine. It seems to > me that if changing this setting doesn't break anything > significant, that it should probably become the default setting. It will double the latency from 100ms to 200ms. If you compensate that by lowering default-fragment-size-msec, does it still work better? Anyway, these options only matter when not using the timer-based scheduling. Why are all your machines (or at least three of them) running with the old interrupt-based scheduling mode? -- Tanu