On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 22:15, James Green wrote: > But when I did this fix I found that I still got overflow errors. I > instrumented the code a lot and found that the read routine couldn't keep > up with the write routine. The buffer size was the default, 8192 bytes. > This doesn't seem large enough on my PC, ie. it gets filled too quickly > before the read routine can get in. However, my PC is pretty quick, and it > is only 2% loaded, so I think the buffer default size needs increasing. > 16KB was enough for me, but if somebody has a slower PC they might need > bigger. Is there any problem with making the default bigger. It's pretty > useless at the moment.
Reading this, I remember that the old drivers (ost api) for the dbox2 had a default buffer size of 256KB, which should be the reason why they did not get as many buffer overflows as the current dvb-core drivers. :-) Regards, Andreas -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
