[linux-audio-dev] n00b friendly latency tester

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 16:16 +0100, Martin Habets wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:13:42AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Same as the existing CLI tools - it would start an RT thread that polls
> > on the RTC, then tell the user to generate some load (switch windows, do
> > a find /, pingflood the default gateway, whatever), then report back the
> > maximum latency.
> 
> In stead of telling the user to generate some (unpredictable) load I would
> suggest re-using the parts from the alsa latency tester tool that automatically
> spawn another process with a known load.

Yeah I was thinking about this.  There are workloads that cause xruns
(like display activity with some video drivers) that are hard to
simulate this way.  Maybe we could generate some load and tell the user
to generate their own load at the same time.

Lee