On 29/09/2013 7:28 PM, Alex Holst wrote: > I'm looking for input on solving a long-standing issue with uaudio > playback on my desktop system. (http://mongers.org/openbsd/dmesg.fit) > > When playing local FLAC files or streaming ogg/mp3 through mpd (or > cvlc), I experience stuttering when system interrupts spike above 15% -- > the most reliable way I can reproduce this is by forcing a bit of disk > i/o. > > Back in April I tried Alexandre's patch related to audio/midi interrupts > on mp kernels. I also tried sndiod -r44100 -z2940 but neither made any > difference. > > Is the stuttering likely related to my hardware, is it a known problem > or is there something else I can try?
Sounds quite similar to this: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137935068413841&w=2 If that is the case then I guess that upgrading from the Atom to a faster CPU might alleviate your symptoms, though difficult for me to say because the underlying issue sounds very complex. paul
