On my Mac Mini (details below), the following simple command starts hanging more and more often the longer I run the machine without a reboot: sox --buffer 512 -n -d synth 1 sin 440 The buffer size reduction makes this happen sooner, but the issue can eventually happen without this I believe. When the hang occurs: * It is immediate with no output sound, though the SoX progress display does appear. * The progress counter does not advance. * Kill will not kill the process; kill -9 is required. * ps shows the status as S+, meaning foreground and in a less-than-20-second sleep. * nwchan is 0 and wchan is - My Mac is running Monterey because it is too old to run a newer OS, but this is a rather old problem. I am running SoX from Homebrew. In case it matters, my default output device is a Turtle Beach USB sound card, though I don't think the device changes this issue. I do run Loopback but am not using it for default output. -- Doug Lee dgl@xxxxxxxx http://www.dlee.org Freedom is not the ability to have what we want. Freedom is merely the ability to seek it. To be free defines what we can do, not what we can get. (03/28/05) _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
