[alsa-devel] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 349696 bytes (1821 ms).

[Chris]

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:45 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> 2009/12/21 Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>
> 
> > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 07:47 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote:
> > > I can reproduce this bug on pulseaudio-0.9.14 by
> > >
> > > aplay -v --period-size=32  any_rate_not_equal_44100Hz.wav
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Anyway to stop this from happening? When it does happen it's causing my
> > drive to thrash for about 4-5 minutes or longer as shown below:
> >
> > Dec 20 14:35:50 localhost pulseaudio[4331]: ratelimit.c: 271 events
> > suppressed
> > Dec 20 14:35:50 localhost pulseaudio[4331]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing
> > locally
> >
> > Dec 20 14:44:15 localhost pulseaudio[4331]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing
> > locally
> >
> >
> >
> you have to provide  a test case which can reproduce this bug and a full
> pulseaudio log which recorded how this bug occur
> 
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Community#BugsPatchesTranslations
> 
> If autospawning is enabled (which it now is by default) you might have to
> race against it when restarting PA, so it might be a good idea to issue
> "pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvvv" in a single command
> 
> 
> In my case , I suspect the latency and watermark calculation did not get the
> correct watermark/sleeping time when the alsa application using small period
> size (128 bytes is the alsa-pulse-plugin 's minimum period size ) since the
> error "asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing
> locally" does not occur when using the normal period_size of those
> applications (e.g. aplay , mplayer work quite well ) or rewind too much
> since snd_pcm_rewind() is a new function which is only used by PA server
> 
> 
I have the output of the above command, where do I post it?



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