[alsa-devel] [snd_via82xx] EAGAIN on snd_pcm_prepare after EPIPE on mmap_commit

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and rom1dep at 23/07/09 18:23 did gyre and gimble:
> 2009/7/23 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>:
>> At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:21:44 +0200,
>> rom1dep wrote:
>>> Hello !
>>> I am encountering some issues with pulseaudio : after some time and
>>> for no evident reason PA stops routing the sound.
>>> That's what I get with $pulseaudio -vvv :
>>> http://pastebin.mandriva.com/13648 (got from a 2.6.29.6_mdv kernel)
>>> running $pacmd list-sinks when stuck gives :
>>> http://pastebin.mandriva.com/13649
>>>
>>> Our pulseaudio integrator Colin Guthrie concluded :
>>> "OK, so what is happening is that some alsa level problem is occurring
>>> (due to mmap). Pulse tries to recover from this but cannot. The alsa
>>> sink (and the whole card) is subsequently unloaded due to this fatal
>>> error."
>>> And now.. a quick paste from irc :
>>> "[00:44:20] <coling> Jul 22 14:04:29 <mezcalero>     coling: driver
>>> issue i am pretty sure
>>> [00:44:20] <coling> Jul 22 14:04:33 <mezcalero>     i saw that before once
>>> [00:44:20] <coling> Jul 22 14:04:55 <mezcalero>     coling: i.e.
>>> EAGAIN on snd_pcm_prepare after EPIPE on mmap_commit
>> This is odd.  EAGAIN is returned only at open, read/write and drain
>> ioctls.
>>
>> Could you track with strace?
>>
>>
>> Takashi
>>
> 
> It wasn't easy : that big output made my config swap and finally
> pulseaudio leave for "E: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due
> to CPU overload."
> but :
> http://pastebin.mandriva.com/13665

You probably want to repost using a different pastebin... our stupid one 
cuts the posts short at some pointlessly low value... I've asked about 
this to get it made bigger but I don't know who looks after it. I'd 
recommend pastebin.com.

Col


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