8 Nov
2002
8 Nov
'02
6:18 p.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote on Sat, 09-Nov-2002:
Jesse Chappell wrote:
I guess my real question is: exactly what is happening to the sound
(in your qualitative estimation) when it is degraded?
jlc
What is the nature of the quality degradation? I
assume that
no xruns are occurring in all cases... you are sensing
degradation that occurs with no obvious suspect?
Yes no xruns. It seems to be directly related to the amount of available
physical memory. I have been talking with AthlonRob about how the Linux
memory management works and it seems that the kernel will cache almost
all the available memory up to between 10 and 4 MB before it starts
swapping.