> I have noticed that there are still a number of system oriented things > that, on my system, absolutely guarantee an xrun. The simplest is dropping > down to a console. (Alt-Ctl-F2)
It is a known problem and is in the list of "things you should not do" in Andrew Morton's low latency page (at the bottom): http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html -- Fernando