Re: 2.1.86 lock with sound card running

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 19:57:51 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Carsten Gross wrote:

>Hello!
>
>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980214184840.357A-100000@arca.arca.it>,
> arcangeli@mbox.queen.it (Andrea Arcangeli) writes:
>> With 2.1.86 if I run:
>> mpg123 example.mp3 &
>> find /
>> my kerel lock in some seconds.
>
>This is not reproduceable for me (tried hard several times). System is: Tyan
>Tomcat II Dual with 2* P100, running kernel version 2.1.86 compiled with SMP
>support. I'm using the aic7xxx driver, only SCSI-disks and a cd-rom are
>connected, this means: no IDE disks, no NFS-mounts. Sound is played via a
>Soundblaster AWE32. Everything works perfectly :-)

I find out that the lock happen inside DMAbuf_getwrbuffer() called from
audio_write(). The mp3 file I am playing is "112 kbit/s, 44100 Hz
joint-stereo". Are you playing the same file format? The file is also 4/5
Mbyte long...

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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