Martin wrote:
> We are experiencing a VM Crash in our production system. It happens 
> after between 3-5hs since is running. It seems to be related to the 
> SoundPlayer but it's used extensively through the system and we cannot 
> track what happens. I attached the crash dump files where we found the 
> errors. It seems to be related to the SoundPlayer 
> class>startPlayerProcessBufferSize:rate:stereo:sound: method, have 
> somebody experienced something similar?

It looks like it's crashing somewhere in the sound player's play loop, 
and fairly reliably so. If you can repeat the problem, could you try the 
following:
- Launch your application
- Press F2 to get to the VM preferences
- Go to "Display and Sound" and toggle the Direct Sound preference
This will take a slightly different path in the VM. If this crashes as 
well, please send me the crash.dmp. If it doesn't crash you can use that 
as a workaround; the problem is then likely in the low-level interface 
to DSound.

BTW, one other thing you might try that might be helpful is to change 
SoundPlayer class>>startPlayerProcessBufferSize:rate:stereo:sound: to 
give the player process highIOPriority. The default player priority is 
too low if you have other preemptive activities related to sound.

Cheers,
   - Andreas